Mark Jacobs wrote: >I guess when the "urgency and panic" arrives the people still left >working are going to be offered an obscene amount of money not to jump >ship when some other company who needs your services makes obscene job >offers.
Perhaps one can look at it as another Y2K opportunity... possibly an extended one. I'm thinking that somewhere around 1960 is the mainframe KT boundary. No Dinosaurs were born after that date... ;-). Regards, Dean not speaking for anyone but Dean >Mark Jacobs >Time Customer Service Inc. >Tampa, FLorida >Time Warner -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Kent Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mainframe Jobs Going Away Steve Comstock wrote: >Urgency must be relative. You don't have to generate your >salary in the next two months, I would wager. I've traveled >halfway around the world to do training, some of it at IBM's >request (Kuwait, Denmark) some at my own initiative (Ireland, >Singapore). Love it. Enjoy the experience while you're there. Personal prediction pulled from a dark orifice: by 2010, mainframe dependent companies will understand what the word 'urgency' means. Those who know what it means now will be using the word 'panic'. ;-). Regards, Dean speaking for myself and no other. >Kind regards, >-Steve Comstock >The Trainer's Friend, Inc. >http://www.trainersfriend.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
