RE: Time to get serious

Hello Mike,


2.  We want young guys who can come in and learn from these pros,
learn the business and be our workhorses for the long haul.

May I say how refreshing it is to hear that. I have long thought that the way 
to go was to have more experienced chaps and Chapeses teach younger people how 
to go, it can work out cheaper in the long run too IMHO.  :-)


See above.  However, our business needs are pretty specific (trucking,
especially LTL trucking).  I don't expect to find many people with
experience specific to our industry.  We'll teach the business to the
old pros.  That's not a problem.

Ok you will teach the old fogies (like me:-)) but why is it that so many people 
seem to think that a programmer MUST have relevant business experience? I do 
not think that it is necessarily the case.   

But I'm on a 30 year time horizon here.  That's why I want the young
guys as well.  I want to build this business for the long haul.  I
understand that the landscape will change dramatically over the next
30 years, but who's to say that RPG can't be made even better over the
next 30 years?

Hear hear.


That's what I'm looking for.  But as we build a critical mass of Java
programmers and our RPG programmers retire off, what do we do?  If we
reach a tipping point where we no longer have and no longer can
acquire competency in RPG, what do I do?

Struggle, as we are doing because someone only decided to convert half our 
system to RPGIV from RPGII. I personally think you are on the right track for 
what it worth.  Got a job for an old fogie then?  :-)

Steve