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Subject: Re: FW: Children of the 1970's - Great Operating Systems
From: James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 16:26:32 -0800
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Mark Allen wrote:

but now we will be in the same unemployment line.... unless you've managed
to keep your skills "current" to what the marketplace is looking
for...............

Given a choice between becoming a WinDoze programmer, and retiring from programming entirely, to take a job as a maintenance engineer at an ice rink, at little more than minimum wage (which is something I spent almost a decade doing), I'd happily take the latter.

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