Re: IT career and getting older
- From: "propaul" <betterdie@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 27 Sep 2006 21:31:08 -0700
You should looking for some book relate to HOW TO START MY OWN
BUSINESS, my friend whose brother just late 20 start business after 2
years working experiences, I had asked him how he capabled to manage
the business.He asked me, do you have swimming poor at home? Then he
continues to say... if you don't know how to swim but when you have
your own swiming poor you will start to learn how to swim without the
instuctor. This is how he makes progress....
Phlip wrote:
Big Charles wrote:
I'm 37 years old and have allways been free lance. I have more than 10
years of experiencie in IT. I started programming in Clipper 5.3 and
Foxpro for DOS many years ago. Now I develop web applications,
basically in .NET and Oracle database.
I know IT people who are simily delirious about Ruby on Rails. Try it. It
will blow the big-iron SQL databases out of the water.
I love IT, probably much more than system analisys. But I have realized
that I must learn analisys and get a master degree in Computer Science.
I mean, now being close to my forties, it could be seen quite
ridiciulous when I were 45 years old and still programming and
competing with 20 something year old programmers.
Where I live, discrimination the basis of age is supposed to be illegal. Of
course that doesn't mean it never happens.
I know that experience is the main advantage that older guys have.
However, as I'm getting older, my big fear is that companies won't hire
me anymore, because I am getting old. Younger professionals will take
my job, because they could know better last platform or language or
database, learn faster and charge cheaper.
Right. HR would rather hire someone who can write lots of bugs in the latest
language, than hire someone with enough experience to avoid bugs and
problems.
Many people can say: It could be time to start your own business.
But being honest: starting your own business is great, but it requires
years to learn how to manage it, get experience and get succesfull. In
the meantime you have to expect to lose money.
It sounds like your IT work already _is_ a business. You transition to
programming when your customer says, "We have these programs, but we always
have to click too many times whenever we do this operation." You volunteer
to get paid to fix that one tiny problem, with a little glue code. Then you
repeat, and you are now following an "iterative methodology". You are
alternating adding small features to a program, with deploying those
features and upgrading the users' experience.
By the way, I'm not deppressed or something else similar. Just looking
for some feedback.
I'm older than you.
--
Phlip
http://www.greencheese.us/ZeekLand <-- NOT a blog!!!
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