Re: mainframe career advice

"Mirlitone" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> you're right, but why does a firm would hire me if i don't have what it
> wants? 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.
>
> There's **must** be a reason that hardly no one want to work with
> mainframe to start a career.
>
> I speak from what i know, things may be different elsewhere... ;-)

I'm not going to get Pete started but I read a quote the other day from
someone who works at a rather large company building modeling and coding
tools. The general gist was that people are threatened by the new tools
because they see themselves as Java/Cobol/Unix/J2SE practitioners. They are
threatened by anything that removes the need for that low level skill.
However, what people are failing to understand is that it's not what you
know, it's your ability to provide a solution. With experience you get more
to draw from. Remember: Software Engineers can have a career where coders
will have ever shortening contracts.

Using a twist on the hammer analogy.....if someone builds an pneumatic
hammer, it doesn't mean the house will build itself.

Learning is fun...to me that's better than doing the same old routine.

Yours

Someone Who Doesn't follow his own Advice


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