On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chris, > I agree, a lot of the young kids don't want to dig thru doc , research or > learn how hardware and software work. If it ain't a gui and using JVM , > well ...I learned macro level cobol for CICS , by a guy showing and telling > you how it worked ..if you asked a second time, his response, you weren't > listening the first time. We also had access to source code and that's how > we learned a lot about CICS guts, it's inter-workings, then we managed to > go to IBM class if we were lucky. > Part of the problem is likely today's culture. It is a "I want it _now_!" society. Along with "And I want it _cheap_!". This is not just the "kids". A lot of it is from "upper management". In many companies today, managers don't consider the company an investment in their future. They want this year's bonus and if that means sacrificing next year's business, then so be it. Young people get pushed to "be productive". Which to management usually means "get something into the users' hands NOW and get them off my back". > > I busted my ... To get into systems programming and then development, I > earned mine like a lot of other girls and guys. Bottomline, I feel you > have to earn it. > IMO, if you want to find the people who are willing work hard and learn, look in the FOSS arena. Most of those people are driven to "scratch their own itch", not just make a buck. Of course, they also want peer approval. Not that all of them are pleasant. Look at some of Linux Thorvald's (father of Linux) posts to others. Talk about nasty language. Makes all the posts here seem like the words of saints. > > Scott ford > www.identityforge.com > from my IPAD > > -- This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough hunchbacks. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
