Hi Joshua, *I think David Heinemeier Hansson* answers this well in this blog post.
- Mike "Peopleware <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932633439> quotes a study that six months seemed to be the cut-off point for programmers. Once they had six months under their belt, the platform knowledge was no longer the bottleneck in their abilities. That sounds about right to me. That’s how I felt it going to Ruby. In the beginning, I would constantly be looking things up. Trying to internalize the idioms and not merely convert previous patterns to new syntax. But after about six months of exposure, I knew where things were. What tools to reach for. Yes, I kept on learning (and still do), but the difference between now and then is not all that dramatic." - http://37signals.com/svn/posts/833-years-of-irrelevance On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Joshua Partogi <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi all, > > I haven't been in the situation like this before. But is it true if > for example you have 20 years experience as COBOL programmer, and then > when you switch career to (for example) Rails, you will be considered > as Junior Rails programmer and your salary will drop and be equalled > to Junior programmer? Does your experience as programmer (eventhough > as COBOL) are not considered? Has anyone found this case before? The > reason I ask is I might need to reconsider to switch career to Rails > world if this is the case when I will be dealing with HR. > > Thanks for the insights. > > -- > Certified Scrum Master > http://blog.scrum8.com | http://jobs.scrum8.com | > http://twitter.com/scrum8 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
