Re: mainframe career advice

"Ian Dalziel" <iandalziel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 28 Sep 2005 01:56:15 -0700, "K K" <kishorekadam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>hi .. read all that stuff wat mirlitone was tellin .. i too agree wid
>>him. i am also a fresher and fortunatly or unfortunately ,i got job in
>>a company that deals only with mainframes ... and now i had a exp of
>>some 5 months in the same company .. I too , feel , mainframes is dying
>>and its defintly old one . and i feel jealous of my friends, doin stuff
>>on java and other new technology products.. feels guilty why i am into
>>the main frames. though the money they provide ....is descent ... the
>>** kind of satisfaction** is not really enuf. but thinking on the
>>other side ... i haven't seen how java technologies actually work (as i
>>am fresher) ...
>>please give guidelines for me .. to the better of my future
>>thank you
>
> A course in English might be a good starting point?
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>
> Ian
I would follow this up with a good grounding in logic.

Posting in a thread called comp.lang.cobol making the statement "mainframes
is dying" and then saying "give guidelines for me" makes about as much sense
as a beef cow asking a butcher if she should get a career in the dairy
industry.

J.


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