What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Jason said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Where do rumours like this start? Database and "People's Soft" work is the highest paying, most in demand in IT? PeopleSoft went under a decade ago and wasn't big work then!
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1230515-ccnp-vs-people-s-soft
It's still used in government and colleges though.. aka the lowest paying.
Oh sure, I expect the worst businesses to still be running ancient software. But they are already staffed with experienced people, experienced on their own setups. There will never be a market for newbies to start learning today and in five years have the experience necessary to be the junior guy on the team at a government shop that was a decade past end of life and is now a decade and a half out of date.
Running stuff old for ten years is... sad but reality. But starting the education to support something that old means your career can't last more than a year or two, if that, since you have to add in the time to get up to speed, get the education, land a job, get trained.... fifteen years old is pushing the limits even for most government. Sure, somewhere is going to go to twenty, even twenty five years, but at best that gives you a ten year career life, a very sad ten years always waiting for the other shoe to drop. But worse, a maximum of ten years where you are both the newbie with the least experience in the field (as every highly experienced person doing this since the 1990s is still looking for that work) and the foolish guy who went into a dead field long after it was dead.
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It's kind of like going into Windows 2000 desktop support today as a newbie just finding out what Windows is (and accidentally calling it "Doors" or something - he didn't even know the name!!) so that there is a huge learning curve, no way for you to get the software and the field is saturated with experienced people from the NT era who know Windows 2000 down cold and have experience from when it was current and there was tons of it. Coming in now, ten to fifteen years past end of life, you'd never find work let alone manage to keep working.
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At this from a street vendor across the street from our house last night. Literally so close that she could toss the food through our door since we live on a side street. I can order from the upstairs bedroom window and if I could make the catch she could toss them to me. They are little cheese bits in the middle of mashed potato balls that are fried and then then topped with coleslaw (heavy on the cabbage, light on the sauce) and wrapped in a banana leaf. They are only ten Cordoba per ball which is somewhere around thirty five cents.
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Restaurants are pretty colourful here...
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Was just working on one of our Linux servers, CentOS 7. Noticed that after a month of uptime (28 days, did a reboot just after checking) that memory usage was just 68MB. That's why you don't run a GUI.
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Lots of rain here right now...
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Been a busy weekend here, cleaned out office and got the carpeting in!
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Just got back in form a weekend camping with the family.
Was fairly unplugged by choice.
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Tried clicking on the reply button and succeed(like playing whack-a-mole). Phew! what a busy thread this is....
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@scottalanmiller said:
Running stuff old for ten years is... sad but reality. But starting the education to support something that old means your career can't last more than a year or two, if that, since you have to add in the time to get up to speed, get the education, land a job, get trained.... fifteen years old is pushing the limits even for most government. Sure, somewhere is going to go to twenty, even twenty five years, but at best that gives you a ten year career life, a very sad ten years always waiting for the other shoe to drop. But worse, a maximum of ten years where you are both the newbie with the least experience in the field (as every highly experienced person doing this since the 1990s is still looking for that work) and the foolish guy who went into a dead field long after it was dead.
The last job I worked at used a Student Information System that was installed in 1984 when I got there (it finally went away ~2005!).... The Director of IT at the time had spent so much time in the code that when the company had a problem they couldn't figure out, they woudl contract her out to fix the problems! (I find this hillarious!)... The product... was Jenzabar's POISE.
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Just getting caught up, so many posts!
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Working as early as I can so that I can finish my task for today!
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Someone gave me some fresh fruits!
Pineapple
and Papaya -
We have a pineapple delivery coming today!
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In a thread about getting more women interested in IT, and a bit after I flagged it for moderation, I cannot believe that this Pimiento with only one post gets to keep this one on a thread. Still there, hour or two later, as I post this!
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At least the over-moderation issues have been seriously curtailed, I've not seen a bad mod in months now. Very happy about that, even with me posting more heavily than ever. But this one really needs someone to step in and delete that post (and maybe that account.)
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@nadnerB said:
@scottalanmiller said:
We have a pineapple delivery coming today!
Pineapple Express?
Indeed!
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@scottalanmiller said:
In a thread about getting more women interested in IT, and a bit after I flagged it for moderation, I cannot believe that this Pimiento with only one post gets to keep this one on a thread. Still there, hour or two later, as I post this!
I think I can see why it hasn't been deleted/moderately moderated.
However I still think that it is definitely not contributing to the topic. It seems more like flame-bait.I flagged a similar comment from someone else last week and that got toasted.
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Just lost power. Who knows how long we will be offline. Phones nearly dead too
