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on 09/21/2005
at 06:36 AM, "Huckert, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I have to agree with bill on some points but there are exceptions. I
>am 28 and I have been a mainframe operator for about 5 years now and
>I am looking to get into system programming. I was raised with a
>strong work ethic and I do all I can to make sure my work is done and
>done right the first time. I have worked long hours OFF the clock
>with my previous sys prog to try and learn as much as I can.
>Unfortunately, just like other data centers I have worked at, this
>company moved off the mainframe. I was once involved in a conversion
>of a client from VSE to MVS and I worked several 20 and 30 hour days
>to help the conversion.
I might believe a 30-hour shift ;-)
BTW, I would encourage anybody putting in such hours, or managing a
team putting in such hours, to carefully monitor[1] the error rate
and to consider the possibility that the job might get done faster
with mandatory naps and rest breaks.
>Umm if I have not made everyone to terribly mad does anyone have any
>advice on what I can do to help get into mainframe system
>programming?
That's a toughy. Operations used to be a standard source of
candidates, but these day's companies are looking for external
candidates with experience, offshoring the work, or both.
>My hunch was because the programming manager ipl'ed it by flipping
>the power switch off.
Ouch!
[1] Better, have a 3rd party m0onitor your error rate; if you're
exhausted enough to affect your judgement, you're exhausted enough
to not realize it.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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