Nobody said the captain had to be human!
Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war!
Posted on 06/14/2023 5:55:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Nobody said the captain had to be human!
Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war!
The plus and minus of these jobs is they can all mostly be filled remotely. That’s great if you’re in them, especially if you work best with limited distractions, but it also means they can be offshored easily.
Me, too. I didn't hate it, but it was time to go. As one moves up the hierarchy, there is less opportunity for keeping technical skills fresh. I didn't want to be a coder for 40 years, I wanted higher-value positions that had more impact on the business.
I've been through file-based ISAM/VSAM systems in COBOL and PL/1; IBM 360/370 JES/JCL systems; VM & TSO; early 4GL languages like FOCUS and NOMAD2; the advent of SQL with IMS, DB2, and Oracle; 3-tier client/server systems with PowerBuilder and Composer; SAP; and Agile/Scrum.
Forty years later, the technologies were changing again with cloud-based SaaS, IaaS, and IoT. It was just time to go. I saved my retirement portfolio and it's time to live work-free for the next 25 years.
-PJ
I started with Burroughs supporting their mainframes, back then virtually nothing was compatible from vendor to another, when I moved into networking deployment I never wanted to take hands off the keyboard, fear of losing a technical edge and the ability to move from one business to another because Cisco switches and routers were the same regardless of company. Later on I went into Cisco Voice Deployments building Cisco Call Manager and Voice Mail Servers
I was a team leader a couple of times, one time at a Cisco Technical Assistance Center supporting Cisco routers and wide area networks but it was a thankless job
I’ve been in IT since 83. I’m sick of IT, sick of IT people and extremely tired of users. I’m going to retire soon and plan on never touching this crap again.
Right back atcha...the fun is gone for me. The 36 hour days followed by endless paperwork and most companies India first policies. I have guys working for me that are in thier 70’s and 80’s, I’ll never understand it.
Struggle = Not offering a realistic competitive salary.
How true. That’s why number 11 would be...
11. Legacy programmer/developer/analyst on IBM i platforms.
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
Don’t even get me going on users. The stories I could tell.
We upgraded that phrase to... Have you power cycled it?
Oh I bet you have some good ones...
Ctrl-Alt-Delete works miracles
I've been retired from IT for some years now. About the only thing I qualify for now is a big box store greeter.
RE: Struggle = Not offering a realistic competitive salary.
Is a six figure salary not realistically competitive enough? That’s the average advertised salaries that I see on the job boards.
Think thats my future too. Everything requires a cert just to walk on site. F that noise, not me. I want to work some simple mindless job for about 20 hours a week if at all possible.
Apparently not enough. Supply and demand. It's the law.
When I worked in IT, I discovered that a good rule of thumb for hiring good computer people is asking them which games they play. There seems to be a high correlation between competent computer people and the games they play. Someone who said “I never play video games” was probably a crappy computer guy.
This was a required course for CS in the Univ of Alabama system colleges. At the end of the course we turned in our assignment. The instructor ran my program and told it to read a text file of source code he made, and my program had to parse, tokenize, and implement whatever user defined variables and procedures he coded, including when he called his own methods recursively. (During the course he defined a mock programming language.)
Many senior CS students changed their major because of this one required course that was offered only once per year. I figured the few who made it trough that could handle whatever we threw at them.
dyslexics make the best testers, because they’ll do things that normal folk won’t.
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