Re: What skills should you have?

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If you have other machines at your site such as Oracle or SQL Server I would
focus on those.  You can learn ASP.net to deploy reports that source AS/400
data. ( I know many people on this list have an aversion to Microsoft but I
am not sure why. I myself lost my job in AS/400 shop and was unable to get
anything else but fortunately I had some skills on other areas and so can
work in the Microsoft Business Intelligence area. Since then, I was told to
deploy the reports I had written so I had to learn ASP.net C#. (Still I
would love and I pray in fact to come back to an AS/400 shop albeit I
wouldnt' want a plain RPG 3 type of situation)

Try to find a project that would be useful in your job but give you learning
capabilities, or if not useful, maybe for someday.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Tom Deskevich <
thomas.l.deskevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I like the elephant eating analogy. When a person who just knows RPG, and
> never used any LE looks at that list, they may run away screaming back to
> their comfortable RPG box. I know, they may find their box moved out in the
> parking lot with the rest of their personal items when they are replaced.
> But, he may have the list mastered and get replaced anyway but someone
> fresh
> out of College or a foreign country who will work for a lot less.
>
> I know it sometimes feels like we are eating the elephant while he is still
> alive, and he is not too happy about it. I am not looking for a job, but I
> like to see what skills are asked for in the ads for RPG programmers. From
> what I have seen SQL the skill most in demand. I have never seen an ad that
> asks for RPG,SQL,JAVA,PHP,HTML,JS,VB.NET <http://vb.net/>(I know that
> one!) and on and on.
>
> I do have some time to learn on my job, I am thankful for that, and also
> thankful that I have a job for that matter. It has got to be frustrating to
> know that you need to learn, yet have no time. Some people are also
> committed outside of work taking care of their families, so they have no
> time there either.
>
>
> Tom Deskevich
>
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