On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 02:10:14PM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote: > I understand what you're saying, but let me (as a person who > occasionally hires) give my counter argument. If a person has a real > technical background, and not <prejudices follow> just web page design > or Visual Basic </prejudices>, then the years of experience in whatever > it was will have lots of positive transfer to another technical area.
Yeah, I get that... but the "basics" you have are just that, basics. It's way to easy to wind up back at the bottom of the pile and begin clawing your way up, only to find you've reached another dead end. > An example of this was a friend of mine who got a job as a programmer at > Logicon (big military contractor) right after getting out of the Navy in > the late 60s. He's never programmed before ... not a line ... but he had > a knack and he picked it up over the first year. He was there over 30 > years before he retired. Are there *any* private-sector jobs where you can do your 20 or 30 and retire with a pension any more? And not have the pension fund looted, under-funded, or blown on bad investments? > I hear ya. I have those moments, too. Unfortunately, of all the skills I > have, and I have a few, none of the others pay like this. I suppose I > could transfer to Marketing; they've already shoved me toward management > path over my feeble protests. I've managed, and I'm not really any good > at it, and Marketing ... well, they do real stuff I've fond out, but > it's just so not _me_! I don't really know how to do anything else, either. But instead of going back to the beginning in yet another tech area that'll wind up being outsourced and laid off *again*, I figure I'll start at the bottom in something new. -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
