Re: Lower End AS/400s

I think that right now, if you _have_ a job in IT, you are lucky.  Period.

You guys can argue all you want about the merits of the iSeries vs the rest
of the world, but in reality it's just a lot of hot air.  Ask the over
500,000 programmers that got laid off last year if they care what platform
that they are working on...They just want to work.

AND, I'm spending my spare time learning web design, XML, Java, VB6, and
.NET stuff so that I _will_ have the skills to carry me into the future.

Even though my first love is the iSeries...

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael R" <michaelr_41@hotmail.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 11:05 AM
Subject: RE: Lower End AS/400s


> Not doomed...just that the job market much smaller...and of course, the
> Mercedes mechanic will probably be paid more than the GM mechanic - I
don't
> know if the same is true for the iSeries professional.
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> >From: "Booth Martin" <Booth@MartinVT.com>
> >Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> >To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> >Subject: RE: Lower End AS/400s
> >Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:56:24 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
> >
> >
> >  Also please do a monster.com search in Michigan for jobs for General
> >Motors
> >Auto Mechanics and also for Mercedes-Benz Auto Mechanic.   I bet the same
> >logic would show that the Mercedes-Benz automobile is doomed.
> >
> >
> >Frankly I am astounded that the ratio was 32/106.  Asked to guess I would
> >have guessed at 10 of 100 or even less.
> >
> >---------------------------------------------------------
> >Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
> >Booth@MartinVT.com
> >---------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >-------Original Message-------
> >
> >From: midrange-l@midrange.com
> >Date: Monday, December 16, 2002 11:39:04 AM
> >To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> >Subject: RE: Lower End AS/400s
> >
> >This probably has no meaning to the experts, but I thought it was
> >interesting. Did a monster.com search on java in Michigan - 106 hits. One
> >looked like it might be java and as/400. Did a monster.com search on
> >iseries
> >or AS/400 or as400 in Michigan - 32 hits. So, unscientific as this is, it
> >seems to me there are more java jobs than as/400-anything jobs.
> >
> >
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