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I'm quite a bit older than my boss, but he's had more than twice as much experience working with computers as I do. I first touched a computer when I was about 40, took my first programming class at 43 and got my first job at 46. I've been doing it for eight years now. The scary thing is that I'm considered to be the one in the shop with the highest interest in "new" stuff. Don't know about senility, but I have been accused of being demented. -----Original Message----- From: Schenck, Don [mailto:Don.Schenck@pfizer.com] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 5:42 AM To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' Subject: RE: Anyone older than 3xx 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 Sender: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com Reply-to: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <mailto:MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com 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 +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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