[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/17/18 9:23 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Bill
>> Gunshannon via Info-vax
>> Sent: December 17, 2018 2:49 PM
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>> Cc: Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?
>>
>> On 12/17/18 2:41 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> And, to demo even more how this method is of very little value, how
>>>> many jobs list Fortran and Pascal in the vacancy announcement because
>>>> it's just boilerplate and the guy in HR who actually wrote the
>>>> announcement hasn't a clue what is really needed or even what a
>>>> programmer is.  (Yes, I can point out ads listing COBOL, Fortran and
>>>> other languages where the actual work is installing PC's and
>>>> printers.)
>>>
>>> Oh, absolutely.  I once applied for a job as an 8051 programmer to
>>> find out that it was a telephone support job.  That's the only time I
>>> have ever walked out of an interview.
>>
>> And, all this talk of COBOL and Fortran (and yes, Pascal!) has brought yet
>> another thought to my head.  We still hear about all the VMS systems out
>> there in the wild (although, apparently, the owners still can't reveal
> their
>> existence) am I the only one who remembers that VMS systems were most
>> often programmed in COBOL, Fortran and Pascal (and, at one time also Ada
>> but as a language that kinda faded even before VMS).  So, what happened to
>> all of those COBOL, Fortran and Pascal jobs?
>>
>> bill
>> (Hint:  I would love to be a COBOL programmer on a VMS system again.
>>    they were great to work on and the compilers were, as you already
>>    know, excellent.  I did Fortran, too, but the kind of programming
>>    done in Fortran really doesn't interest me much any more. Think I
>>    spent way too much time in NAGLIB.)
>>
> 
> I know one Customer site that only 2 weeks ago complained to me how
> difficult it was to get OpenVMS Cobol programmers.
> 
> 

Is remote an option?  :-)

bill