Thanks gentlemen....your my new inspiration!...I am making a conscious effort to make this my goal...and I will ONLY STOP?...
when I'm dead!!! Carpe Diem!!! On Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 7:42 PM Dave Ihnat <dih...@dminet.com> wrote: > On 30 Mar at 17:46, Eddie O'Connor <eoconno...@gmail.com> wrote: > >...and while I'm not a developer?...I would LOVE to BE > > one!...as my son is now college bound and I don't have "babies" to tend > > to...I work from home...and if I could learn the framework and > > languages?..I would SO volunteer, I'm a "spry" 52 yr old...who's been in > IT > > since '99... > > I've been a developer since I got out of college ~1976. I don't know how > spry I am, but I am 70 and still rockin' as my own consultant. > > Actually--I was a full-time developer through around 2004, when I went out > on my own. Incorporated my own business as an IT Consultant. Specialized > in SMBs (Small/Medium Businesses), since I'd observed they get screwed > by the consulting firms. > > Since that time, I've done much less software development. Why? How many > times can I rewrite the same solution, in different languages, for the > same problems? That got tiring. I'm not saying that you shouldn't go for > it--you *haven't* gone through my decades of development, and it's > amazingly rewarding when you get in the groove. > > > I guess we all have fantasy jobs though eh? > > Don't just treat it as fantasy. When I went to create my own company at > 51, I had a friend who griped, "You can't do that! You're too old!". Foo > on him. Go for what you want! > > > Thanks to all the devs and code maintainers who make Fedora a possibility > > for a dweeb lile me!! You guys and gals ROCK!! > > I re-wrote "cut" and "paste" and submitted them to Gnu back in the '80s. It > was both gratifying and amazingly painful (BTL lawyers were not best > pleased. Fortunately, I did it "by the book"--got permission from my BTL > consultant manager, made sure I didn't look at the original source code, > etc.) so I ended up clean. Open Source is the way to keep things moving and > surviving. If you want to get into it, DO IT! > > Sincerely, > -- > Dave Ihnat > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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