Growing your own programmers

I have done that very thing at several locations.  I have NEVER been 
disappointed.  The reason I do it, is that someone did the same thing for 
me 19 years ago.  I guess I like to pay back the favor.

I don't feel that the people who I brought up were insecure or thought 
themselves incapable of progressing past the job they were in.  They were 
people, like myself, who had never considered programming as an interest. 
 Once they caught the 'fire', they turned into some of the finest 
programmers I have ever worked with.  The only programmers I have been real 
disappointed in were ones who majored in CS at college, because they felt 
that was where the money was.  They don't have the fire.  They just want 
the funds.  They seldom develop the heart or imagination to do a real good 
job.

But, that is just my opinion.

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Allen, Mark [mailto:ALLENMA1@mattel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 9:42 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Growing your own programmers
>
> Would appreciate any input from companies and/or individuals who have
taken "non-programmers" and through in house training/external training
converted them to AS/400 RPG programmers.  I am considering starting a
program here to do that and would like all the "experts" out there who
may have done something similar to share their experiences.
>
> Mark Allen
> MIS Manager
> Mattel-Murray
> allenma1@mattel.com
>
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