In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/28/2006
at 11:15 AM, Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm 37, and I'd love to be an assembler wizard. Call me crazy, but I
>think that would be really cool (reference my previous posts
>regarding TCBs, etc.) But, at this point it has to be essentially
>self-directed, because we have a gentleman here who is very good,
>ex-IBMer (started right after 360 came out), knows the internals
>very well, and he does the work, and the boss isn't going to send me
>to school,
Ouch! That's bad for him and bad for the company. By being
"indispensable" he has demands on his free time and the company is at
risk that, e.g., he will be hit by a car.
>Of course, when he has to do something related to zOS Unix, I have
>to do it. "What do you mean it's not mounted? What's that mean?"
>Every trip to OMVS or ISHELL is a guided experience.
Same problem; you'll have a hassle if you want to take a long vacation
and the company will have a problem if anything happens to you.
--
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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