No most people are in agreement that the demand for a given technology diminishes over time.
> Are you the most arrgant person in bizzaroworld, or is > everyone like you ? > -----Original Message----- > From: S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: CF-Talk <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 20:15:00 -0400 > Subject: RE: Newbie Model Glue Questions >> >> Then everyone else can have the scraps that are >> >> left over after developers who've taken the time >> >> to stretch themselves have taken all the best jobs. >> >> It's really that simple. >> >> > I know plenty of people who do not comply to the *Isaac >> > Dealey* way of thinking, and they all have very good >> > jobs, oh wait, so do I, now how did that happen? >> >> You got yourselves into a vanishing niche while there was >> still room >> for new people to enter that space. As the years >> progress, your >> current niche will continue to dwindle. It will of course >> never >> completely vanish, however, if you don't stretch yourself >> you'll have >> to live with the value of your skills diminishing as the >> skill-sets of >> other more agressive developers continue to evolve. More >> advanced >> developers will bring the price of their skills down >> until it becomes >> accessible to your clients, at which point it will start >> to devalue >> your skill set. >> >> This is all very basic economics. >> >> Here's another analogy. America, the land of the free -- >> and here at >> one point in time, farming was one of those "american >> dreams" wherein >> a person could have the land and the life they wanted. >> Not so much >> anymore because large corporate agro-businesses have >> pretty well taken >> over the agricultural market. Today's farmers are doing >> well to be >> surviving, _IF_ they survive against the competition of >> corporate >> agro-business. A large number of the farmers who are >> still surviving >> have joined co-operative farming groups in order to help >> themselves >> compete in what is a vanishing niche for them. >> >> The difference with us is that every single one of us has >> the ability >> to choose to be that person who is continually becoming, >> by stretching >> ourselves to learn new things and make ourselves more >> valuable. So >> while there's very little a farmer can do about their >> vanishing niche, >> asside from stop farming, we can all choose to stay in >> our current >> field of work by adapting our niche. s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:237296 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
