RE: Anyone older than 3xx

["Schenck, Don" <Don.Schenck@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That's Barbra Steisand! (BS)
 
I'm 42. I know VB ... I'm getting proficient in Java ... program ASP pages
... am learning Linux ... and can lead you down the Rational Unified Process
and the Rose tools.
 
I also surf, mountain bike, lift weights and kayak.
 
I'll take my combination of _business_ experience and skills over some dot
com 20-year old hot shot programmer.
 
-- don

-----Original Message-----
From: Portal39@aol.com [mailto:Portal39@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 11:09 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Anyone older than 3xx


At 40 you'll be an old timer 

fiona.fitzgerald@notes.royalsun.com writes: 




Subj: Anyone older than 3xx 
Date: 07/03/2001 9:11:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time 
From:    fiona.fitzgerald@notes.royalsun.com 
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Yes, off topic - what happened to Free OS/400 ? - but being 30-plus is no 
disadvantage for sure, Joe! 

I spent the first half of Y2K explaining to 20-somethings the "not if it's 
a century year" thing. I had the same issues when I was traing programmers 
- why do we need to do this - what's a Julian date about .... 

OK, maybe it's good that education is more specialised, but I do 
increasingly feel that we are coding/configuring 
for the real world & being pushed for time by empire-builders with a 
short-term outlook - Thank God for SQL .... 

I guess IT people always have the uneasy feeling of looking through a 
microscope and a telescope simultaneously, and the overview is easily lost. 

My first job was mainly a 36 -> 400 conversion, working with engineers, 
whose stunning, meticulous professionalism impressed the heck out of me. 
Inspiring, & I still believe that software engineers have a long way to go 
to match that maturity - not conservatism, by any means, but the 
perspective of being on a truly multi-user system, & not the only car on 
the road. 

(Forgive this rambling - it's not as though I know you guys personally.) 
Fiona 

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