[Info-vax] 1 year.

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Fri Aug 7 08:36:30 EDT 2015


On 2015-08-06, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> IanD wrote:
>
>> Then you have the diminishing skills of the folk who are meant to
>> look after the application but being VMS adverse, this too is a
>> loosing downward spiral
>
> This I do not buy.  For example, my son works at a nuclear power 
> station.  They trained him for what he must know, they pay him a decent 
> salary, and they have a reactor operator.  Application design and 
> programming is no different, other than a person needs to have an 
> apptitude for the work.  If you want VMS capable people, hire them, 
> train them, pay them, and you have what you need.
>

That's how things used to work. It's not how things work in the
general case now.

My CV shows a continuing history of adapting to and learning new things
which simply didn't exist at one time; by any reasonable definition
I have demonstrated my ongoing ability to adapt to new situations.

However, around here, unless you match a set of the specific frameworks
of the month/year (with experience) you don't even get considered for
many jobs regardless of the demonstrated aptitude you may have.

The sad thing is that learning a specific framework isn't even the biggest
task in many cases; it's learning the application specific codebase at
your new employer that's likely the major timesink for any new employees.

So yes, I can _easily_ believe IanD when he says he has issues in
this area.

Simon.

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