RE: It's election time for COMMON again. He's baaaaaaaaaaack.

I attended a seminar/presentation last Tuesday presented by MSI and IBM.
Part of that presentation concerned education. IBM has set up an iSeries
lpar 570 at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln to teach UNIX, Linux, AIX,
DB2, SQL database but nothing was said about teaching RPG.

It was also mentioned that our local tech college was teaching iSeries
classes including RPG. None of this has been published in any articles
that I can remember.

If iSeries publications and IBM would push the iSeries more and make sure
companies new there were classes available, maybe the need for H1Bs would go
away

Dave Willenborg
FNTS
Omaha NE

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[mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cyndi Bradberry
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 12:10 PM
To: Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: It's election time for COMMON again. He's baaaaaaaaaaack.

You have hit it on the head Dan. I have been in this business for....too
many years to mention and I have 4 kids. NONE of them are following in my
footsteps because they don't see the jobs anymore. They see the H1b's taking
over and the rest of the jobs heading overseas. (We live in HP & Micron
country). I have only one who so far has shown an interest in computers and
he is going networking because it's hard to outsource the cable jockey.

Cyndi B.
Boise,ID

One aspect that I hear about frequently is that we're not seeing enough
computer programming graduates. Is it possible that kids see what has
happened to the job market? Why the h*ll would any kid spend four years

in

college to earn a degree s/he can't use?

- Dan