Re: mainframe career advice

"HeyBub" <heybubNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mirlitone wrote:
>> There are new stuffs about the position i can get: here's the
>> technical environement:
>>
>> - type of mainframe : IBM z serie
>> - OS : MVS
>> - language : Cobol, or PL/1, or C or C++
>>
>> I'm new in all that stuff but C/C++.
>>
>> Taking into account the fact that IBM is very involved in JAVA, do you
>> think that JAVA under mainframe could be a good carier opportunity in
>> the next future ?

IBM is also very involved with Consulting - perhaps that's a good career.
IBM is also very involved with open source - maybe that's a career for
you...it's very interesting even if, for the most part, the pay sucks.
A good opportunity is anything that pays and makes you not want to kill
yourself after you are done doing it. Java would qualify, on z/OS would
qualify under my rules

> No. Sun, the keeper of the JAVA standard, is, by some estimates, either a
> gomer or a goner.
By some estimates, Microsoft is falling apart from the inside and is
desperately trying to outplay Sony to win the multimedia rights to people's
brains. I have also estimated the number of piano tuners in the greater
Tampa Bay area....some estimates are more useful than others....in terms of
making career goals they are almost wholly useless.
It's a fact that the most mismanaged firms are more than likely the ones
that will overpay you and keep you the longest. Companies that suffer from
efficiency and productivity don't bode well for your <average> employee.

JCE


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