Scott,
Your technical contributions to the iSeries (IBM i) developer community
have been numerous to be sure.
If you're feeling burned out, you might need to find that balance point
in your life between work, home and the community. I've been there :-)
I for one appreciate your human level descriptions of very technical
topics whether RPG or Unix related you've shared some very helpful
techniques.
I've learned one major thing in my 24 years of doing this. Change is
inevitable and change is constant.
I do my best to embrace change every day, but it's not always easy.
As technologists in general it is up to us to stay relatively currently
on technology or fade into the legacy landscape.
I suggest that all of you out there take at least an hour a day to learn
a new technology. Whether it's doing cool stuff with RPG or learning a
new language such as Java, PHP, ASP.Net, etc. Re-light the fire of
curiosity.
Incidentally I find my most creative times are late at night when my
girls are asleep while I'm on vacation. Now that's ironic :-)
Regards,
Richard Schoen
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message: 4
date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:29:15 -0500
from: Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Open Access for RPG
Hi Dennis,
Yes. When one has tried, over and over, to persuade others in the
merits of his own ways, the fault is obviously with the others. It
could not possibly be related to presentation or ability to
teach/lead. There was an instructor with that attitude at a
university I attended. He wasn't there long, though. Keep telling
yourself this, John.
(sigh)
In some cases, you're right, it's the instructors fault. But on the
other hand, you can't teach someone who won't listen or even try to
learn.
I've done my best, for years, trying _very_ hard to make a change to
this community. To get people to wake up to new possibilities, to
improve their skills, so that RPG and IBM i aren't left forever with
that "legacy" stigma. I think I've made a difference, but still by and
large, the RPG community is decades out of date.
But as you say, perhaps it's my ability to present. Or my ability to
teach/lead. I'm not a teacher (by trade) so perhaps I was a fool to
try.
And since there's no money in teaching, I still have to work my "real"
job. So after 7 years of giving up my free time, vacation time, etc to
teach (while still working full-time as a programmer, not a teacher) I'm
extremely burned out and just tired... sooooo tired...
I read somewhere that people are happiest when trying something new. The
happiest periods of people's lives is when they're successful in trying
new things. Yet, their natural inclination is to keep doing what
they're already doing, and not to change at all.
Isn't that ironic?
midrange.com
