My attempted reply to Shane privately bounced due to security setting at his end, so here goes....
Thanks. And there you go trying to pour water on my fantasy of retiring and then earning a little on the side as a consultant with this talk of insurance :) It's looking like Mainframe at my site and my departure will possibly coincide. They don't want to renew the 5-year (from last December) MFaaS contract when it is over and they might just have moved the rest to ERP by then. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Shane G > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 6:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:47:40 +0000, Gibney, Dave wrote: > > >I don't want to sound like some otherucurmudgeons. :) > > Careful .... > > >I am now reminded that converting to ihis newer Webserver is also > somewhere in my ample pushdown stack of things I need to do. > > > >It's not easy being eesentially the only Z/OS Sysprog at an installation. > > Fly me over and we can have an interview in some convivial bar. I'm willing to > do it for you at "mates rates" .... ;-) > > Even at a small shop like Daves', getting through the administrative nightmare > to get short term help is a dead loss. As I said earlier, I just gave up as > the > benefits weren't worth the hassles - why would I continue to carry the cost of > professional indemnity insurance (which was never called upon in all my > years) on the off-chance of getting non-permanent work ?. > And what is "permanent" these days anyway ?. > > Shane ... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
