On 23 Feb 2007 09:00:04 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:18:01 -0600, Graying MVS Sysprog ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Yikes. So, because of a reorg, I have a new boss that knows nothing about >>mainframes at all. Not even Unix. Just Windoze, as far as I can tell. >>I've always had a manager that used to do my job or one very close to it. >>Now I have to explain to him all the projects I'm working on, etc. In >other words, really, it's a job interview. Am I worth anything to the >company? >>I'm the only full time sysprog left here. >> >>I know. I know. And I'm sorry that, yes, at least I do still have a job >>doing what I love. I know many of us have been retired lately. >> >>Any sage words would be appreciated. Or job offers. :) > >Well, I've read thru all the other postings to this. Nowhere did you >mention whether the new boss was male or female? And whether he/she is >older than you (I assume yes)? Without inquiring of your age, how much >younger (in years) is he/she? > >You just need to impress on the new manager AND upper management, >that mainframes are around because of: > >-Reliability >-Longevity >-Cost (bang for the buck) >-Throughput capacity >-Prohibitive conversion cost to the PC / Server, >Windoze, and/or midrange world >(and THAT un-reliability you end up with) > >IBM mainframe SysProgs are dinosaurs for a reason. No one is teaching >this stuff anymore (not really), and certainly not in college course >curriculums for an InfoSys / IT degree, ay?! Newbies gotta learn this >stuff from us old-timers.
My only computer course in college was on an IBM 650 with a 2000 word drum and vacuum tubes. Most of my learning was OJT plus being sent to some IBM courses. My personal opinion is that the universities have bamboozled the business community into believing that they really train people for running data centers. > >As Martha Stewart would say; >"Dinosaur-speed is a GOOD thing.....ay there, sonny?!" > > >TTFN, >Mark Young > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
