RE: The "greying of Common" Is it still true?

My reaction to this is that attending and participating in local user 
group meetings, attending training sessions, reading the magazines at 
lunch time, and otherwise demonstrating a sincere desire to learn will go 
a long ways convincing a manager that sending a programmer to COMMON or 
any other costly training session is useful.

By the way, if you are in Northeast North America you might want to 
consider the Northeast User's Conference held every March.  It is an 
affordable 2 1/2 days of intense learning and AS/400 immersion, and a lot 
of fun.
_______________________
Booth Martin
boothm@earth.goddard.edu
http://www.spy.net/~booth
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Steve Martin <smartin@carefreeofcolorado.com>
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04/03/2000 01:47 PM
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                 <snip>COMMON attendees should not be
                 construed as a representitive sampling of AS/400 shops. 
There are
                 a lot of youngsters around, they all just don't know how 
to wangle
                 a trip to COMMON out of the boss.

                 To ask the questions another way, how many of the folks 
that
                 attend COMMON have to "ask" to go?  How many just write 
their own
                 tickets? </snip>

I am not yet 40. I've been on the AS/400 since Jan.1990 - System38 before
that.

I have asked, hinted, suggested, and otherwise enumerated the reasons why 
I
think it would be beneficial to attend COMMON... and I've never been 
there.

My manager (since June, last) has participated (COMMON) in the past but
makes little effort to budget that in - even with his experience. The way 
I
see it, as long as some of you get to go, as long as many of you are 
willing
to share what you've learned, and as long as you remain members of this 
list
- I get my education from all of you.

Steve Martin
Programmer/Analyst
Carefree of Colorado
303/410.6239
smartin@carefreeofcolorado.com
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