Re: mainframe career advice

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:41:22 -0700, "Chuck Stevens"
<charles.stevens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>A Harley Springer Softail might be the Bike du Jour and a heck of a lot of
>fun to fiddle around with (and given a choice of ways to get from point A to
>point B without luggage or passengers on a day that isn't raining I'll take
>my BMW R1100R every time -- as I did today -- though I'm a bit diffident
>about doing much fiddling around with it as yet).
>
>For Motoring (the four-wheeled English-style recreational activity) I don't
>think anything would beat a Morgan.
>
>I'd certainly thank anyone who gave me a brand-new Ferrari as a gift.

I just was looking in the parking lot at a 1955 Jaguar. I was
drooling. But there's not much future in them.

>But to the main point, there are also times and circumstances in which
> a Peterbilt or Kenworth is really the only appropriate tool for the job.

Or a cargo ship. But they're changing the technologies in these and
I'd find it hard to go home to my wife in Colorado every evening if I
drove a cargo ship for a living.
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