Yes, my analogy is better than yours. That's what more/. posts need. What's next? Who's gonna see who's old man can take who?
Swinging dong contests are lame.
IMHO IBM, have all the patents you want against your inferior Lotus Notes products; the only thing you can claim as intellectual property and protect is 'garbage' and I've got plenty of that around.
I tend to disagree with the whole reasoning behind hiring older, so-called 'seasoned' IT veterans over younger candidates, and not because I am a 27 year old IT professional, but because this *VERY* same stereotype landed on me when I applied for my current position as a UNIX/Linux system administrator. My team currently is comprised of 5 teammembers, in which out of the other 4 teammembers, there is a 25+ year age gap between me and them.
Thankfully age wasn't used against me, because I have confidence in my skillset and abilities and I'm certainly not afraid of jumping in and not just learning something, but mastering it inside and out in a short period of time.
When I was still considered "the new guy" and still soaking in the environment, this is what I noticed about older, 'seasoned' system administrators:
1) Complacent as HELL
2) Drastically lagging skills on new technology
3) Excuse ridden
4) Use their "time in grade" as a way to troll out of doing work
5) Lack of skills in their own respect because they haven't kept up with technology themselves
Say what you want, but only being there a short period of time, I am the lead sysadmin for our team and POC for almost our whole infrastructure. I think a lot of it boils down to initiative and drive. It's not very tough to figure out those types of traits in people.
If anything you shouldn't look at how long some old dwarf's resume is, rather interview the person, not the paper. Contrary to popular believe (because we all do it): People do lie on their resumes and during interviews do get jobs.
Wonder how much money I could get from NASA for this intentional, reckless abandonment of government waste comes shooting into the side of my house? HUGE payout!
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Yes, my analogy is better than yours. That's what more /. posts need. What's next? Who's gonna see who's old man can take who?
Swinging dong contests are lame.
What a better reason to be caught in the perplexity of deciding what do get for celebration: Boston creme or Apple?
IMHO IBM, have all the patents you want against your inferior Lotus Notes products; the only thing you can claim as intellectual property and protect is 'garbage' and I've got plenty of that around.
I tend to disagree with the whole reasoning behind hiring older, so-called 'seasoned' IT veterans over younger candidates, and not because I am a 27 year old IT professional, but because this *VERY* same stereotype landed on me when I applied for my current position as a UNIX/Linux system administrator. My team currently is comprised of 5 teammembers, in which out of the other 4 teammembers, there is a 25+ year age gap between me and them. Thankfully age wasn't used against me, because I have confidence in my skillset and abilities and I'm certainly not afraid of jumping in and not just learning something, but mastering it inside and out in a short period of time. When I was still considered "the new guy" and still soaking in the environment, this is what I noticed about older, 'seasoned' system administrators: 1) Complacent as HELL 2) Drastically lagging skills on new technology 3) Excuse ridden 4) Use their "time in grade" as a way to troll out of doing work 5) Lack of skills in their own respect because they haven't kept up with technology themselves Say what you want, but only being there a short period of time, I am the lead sysadmin for our team and POC for almost our whole infrastructure. I think a lot of it boils down to initiative and drive. It's not very tough to figure out those types of traits in people. If anything you shouldn't look at how long some old dwarf's resume is, rather interview the person, not the paper. Contrary to popular believe (because we all do it): People do lie on their resumes and during interviews do get jobs.
Wonder how much money I could get from NASA for this intentional, reckless abandonment of government waste comes shooting into the side of my house? HUGE payout!
So when did MTV start playing music again? This is news to me. Guess it's never to late to revive yourself with Weird Al...