Re: mainframe career advice

In article <1127828371.893554.170890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mirlitone <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>you're right, but why does a firm would hire me if i don't have what it
>wants?

I barely know why *I* would do things, let alone anyone else... but you
seem to have enough of what the firm wants for them to offer you a job and
training.

>If i choose maiframe now, i think i'll be stuck because i won't
>be abble to be hired in a job where i use something else. It's not
>that i can't learn a new technology, it's simply that no one would hire
>me if the techology i know is useless.

What you see as 'useless' and what other firms see as 'useless' might not
be the same thing. What you have now is training in some technologies and
the capability to learn more. Other firms do not seem to want to pay you
for this, the mainframe shop does.

>
>There's **must** be a reason that hardly no one want to work with
>mainframe to start a career.

There are probably many reasons... and these reasons keep people away from
mainframe shops to the point where one is willing to hire and train you.
Five years from now you will have what you already have now - training in
new technologies (but then they may be 'old' ones) - and additional
training and experience on Big Iron... oh, and whatever salary you've
earned in the meantime.

DD

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