Re: i5 Youngsters

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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