Re: i5 Youngsters

I don't think there are as many students taking i5 curriculums
(curriculi? curriculorum?), but there are fewer schools teaching it.
And they are teaching it less because there is less demand. I think
the best technique is to find a youngster that wants to work and teach
them the trade. They need to have gone through a programming
curriculum, but learning free format RPG is simple if you know another
language.

On Jan 14, 2008 12:31 PM, Vance Stanley <w_vance_stanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a manager/supervisor that is concerned about the "greying" of his work force and the
ability to acquire younger programmers that are willing to work in the i5 environment. I have
argued that when I came into programming in 1991 I just wanted to work and did not care what kind
of programming I was doing. I ended up doing COBOL programming in a mainframe environment and at
the time I thought it was good experience. Anyway, my supervisor seems to think the new crop of
programmers are not as flexible in that regard and only want to learn whats hot. Any thoughts
about how I can present a case to show that the system should be well supplied with professionals
for at least the foreseeable future?

Vance

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