On Mar 14, 2007, at 9:47 AM, Rick Fochtman wrote:
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Bosh Sam and Radislav make some excellent points here; I tend to
split the difference. Some of those new "add-ons" are highly useful
and beneficial for both new and legacy applications; others are
really more useful for new development work than for any legacy
workloads. What always bothered me was that new things came out so
fast that it was hard to become proficient with all of them in a
timely fashion. So I tended to concentrate on those that would
provide the greatest benefit to my current workplace. Doing this
and keeping up with the MVS "core" was a full-time job, and then
some. Just converting some of my basic tools to keep up with the
changes in core mechanisms was often a lengthy learning exercise.
Remember chasing ENQ/DEQ information in SQA? Moving to the GRS
address space introduced a whole new mechanism for accomplishing
the same end. And it's us "Old Farts" that are responsible for many
of the tools that seem so essential to us today.
Us "Old Farts" still have important places in the IT world, right
alongside the "Clever kids" of today. We can all learn from each
other.
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I too agree with you Rick. I have seen so called "IT Professionals"
stuck in a time warp. I will not get into specifics other than to say
sometimes you have to move mountains before you can get them out of
their position of power so the rest of the company can move forward.
One company I worked for (30+ years ago) it took 10 years to weed out
the "stick in the muds" . On the other side are the really bright
types the ones that want to learn new ways and are reasonably good at
doing so (there are are some opportunestic types that think they want
to learn new things but they really don't) . This type(s) of people
are sometimes more prevalent at one type of company than at others.
The second part of your interview is to figure out what type of
company you are interviewing with.
Ed
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