I have a manager/supervisor that is concerned about the "greying" of his work force and the
ability to acquire younger programmers that are willing to work in the i5 environment. I have
argued that when I came into programming in 1991 I just wanted to work and did not care what kind
of programming I was doing. I ended up doing COBOL programming in a mainframe environment and at
the time I thought it was good experience. Anyway, my supervisor seems to think the new crop of
programmers are not as flexible in that regard and only want to learn whats hot. Any thoughts
about how I can present a case to show that the system should be well supplied with professionals
for at least the foreseeable future?
Vance
