Re: job testing, Here we go again.

Don,

In a message dated 98-04-28 13:04:19 EDT, you write:

> On a drink bet at CUDs, I took a hunt about the place to find attendees
>  less than 30 years old.  In the entire night, I only was able to get 3
>  drinks!  I did flatter alot of people though :)  Midrangers are getting
>  OLD....which is GREAT job security for me!  ...not only that, the ones
>  that know the 400 or S/38's who's company's are leaving the platform for
>  something else, are generally staying with the company...not the 400...
>  Further dimenishment of the market talent pool...  This IS the life! :)

Darn!  _TWO_ "BRAVO'S" in less than six months???!!!  The list _MUST_ be
becoming more eclectic ;-)!  Bravo, Don!  The problem isn't the post (which
was _WELL_ within list guidelines and quite _ON_ topic for today's average
midrange shop), but management.  You're right, the only people I saw at _THE
WHOLE DARN CONFERENCE_ that were under 30 were either in management, got their
job from an older "friend", or didn't come from an IS background.  No wonder
IBM is focusing all its efforts on JAVA in the foreseeable future -- problem
is, no JAVA app's need to be made Y2K compliant...

Best Regards!

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"A designer knows he's achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to
add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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