A volunteer Fire Department in Yonkers has decided to form a bucker brigade from Coney Island, on the East Coast, USA, to Water World in Southern California, if for no other reason than to prove it can be done. They hope to have it in place by the 4th of July....2006.
MS didn't 'invest' in Apple out of the goodness in Bills heart. MS did put it's PR machine into high gear in an attempt to rewrite history, however. Funny how Encarta skips over this as well....
Try not to be so literal. Not everyone...but certainly many. Of course not everyone wants such a role. Cool...less competion...that's a good thing, no?
Programmers, when properly trained/skilled, are prime examples of individuals that live and die by being organized. They understand how to prototype and draft and forecast. They know how to allocate and redirect and terminate and archive. They now how to start, stop and restart.
These are all things that define project managers. Project management/planning is one of the highest demand categories in modern industry. A good project manager can make or break an otherwise successful product. If you've run out your interest in coding, or you're simply not able to find a programming job, consider project management in any of a hundred fields. You'd be surprised how interesting it can be, and how useful your present skill set is going forward. My background allows me to talk directly to our software people, and they appreciate that. My background allows me to build my own custom tools, instead of writing a clumsy spec that some intern has to try to follow. My background allows me to prototype in minutes what would take a team days...and if someone wants me to make a decision based solely on the information on the white board, my background allows me to imagine the flow of details quickly and with confidence. I manage projects....and without programming skills to back me up, I'd be forced to carry a crystal ball.
Again, many industries need planners and project managers. Don't let the job define you...step in and define your work by your own standards. Find a company with a problem that needs your skills at large, not just as a programmer, but as someone that can see the big and the small of it. Someone that can handle details and deadlines....detours and debates....specifications and routines. You can still write scripts and run data dumps...you're in charge, remember?
Your problem is...your traditional thinking and how you let it limit your imagination. You overlook your ability to change and do. You are a victim of your own age discrimination.
It's a different world now...I promise. Move with it or die...it's really that simple.
Stop being so IT centric and give yourself credit for being able to make decisions without panicing. Then look around and realize what an asset this can be and find an employer that values that. You can jump into any other field and find a home...project management is needed from the medical industry to tourism...from energy management to child adoption.
Why limit yourself, when so many others are already trying to do that as well. You are in charge of you...take a chance and find out what you can really do. You may just learn something about yourself in the process.
I can't argue with you if you insist on being grounded into one train of thought. You win. One company...one industry....one mind set. It seems clear where you're headed.
not good enough to be promoted?...Then they move you out on the ice and wait for the polar bears to eat you. At least when you come back, it will be in the form of something useful....like a fur coat:)
You'd be surprised. Management today isn't what we grew up with. Like someone earlier said, mentoring is good...call it whatever you like or whatever makes you feel better, but if you've been around the block, you have tons to offer. In my case, I work as a Manager in Asia (electonics manufacturing... R & D). No other wise guys to compete with, and I'm treated and paid great. Think different. Find someone that needs and appreciates the skills you have...don't limit yourself to what's between you and the horizon. You'll lead a happier life, I promise.
And when you find out there are hundreds with the same thing on their business card, and they all know less than you and charge less than you, you'll understand why Webster's defines 'consultant' as: habitually unemployed.
Get serious. You assume only one company...if there was only one company, sure. But the dynamic is such that the ebb and flow results in companies coming and going, with you being able to change who your employer is, not just staying in one place and growing...or not. When my father was working, you had one job and one employer. More than that meant you were 'shifty'. Now, we can have more than one employer every year, and no one sticks us with that same label.
The US is not the only place to look for work, BTW.
You work and live and work and live and one day you turn around....and you realize you 'are' someone or something. If that someone turns out to be a manager, with a better office and better pay and more respect, than so be it. Head, Lead, Manager, Senior....whatever the 'title', if you're not striveing to stand out from those around you, what are you doing? Don't look at 'manager' as a goal, look at it like a next step. What paper boy doesn't want to own the paper?
As an 'old coder' (30 languages since 1968), I can tell you the natural process, that being one of evolution, is for the seniors to become managers. Move up, it's where you belong.
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It amazes me that a book such as this could be banned,
I guess you're too green to remember Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book"......and a bit too charming to know that this kind of 'publicity' helps to sell such books.
"Laugh while you're faking it and smile while you're taking it."
New computers on the shelf, as an example, are at 10.2.3. This means that 10.2.6 is small over 10.2.5 only...but if you buy a new computer today, or you haven't yet moved to 10.2.5, and you proceed to install 10.2.6, you will see a much longer list.
What part of 'perhaps' in the parent caused you confusion?
The 10.2.6 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, utilities, services, and technologies:
Address Book AppleScript Bluetooth Classic compatibilit Disk Copy Disk Utility Finder Graphics Help Viewer iChat Image Capture IP Firewall Kerberos Mail OpenGL Print Center Rendezvous Sherlock
The update includes improvements to AFP, Web services, dial up connections over PPP, and Windows file services, as well as audio, disc recording, and printing improvements and PC Card, USB, FireWire and SCSI device compatibility enhancements.
The update also provides updated security services and includes the latest Security Updates.
The 10.2.6 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, utilities, services, and technologies: Address Book, AppleScript, Bluetooth, Classic compatibility, Disk Copy, Disk Utility, Finder, Graphics, Help Viewer, iChat, Image Capture, IP Firewall, Kerberos, Mail, OpenGL, Print Center, Rendezvous and Sherlock.
The update includes improvements to AFP, Web services, dial up connections over PPP, and Windows file services, as well as audio, disc recording, and printing improvements and PC Card, USB, FireWire and SCSI device compatibility enhancements.
The update also provides updated security services and includes the latest Security Updates.
I've lived/worked here in South Korea for the last 4 years. It took me two years to get ADSL, and one year later they bumped me to VDSL for free. Saying the penisula is saturated with connectivity is an understatement.
We're being told the country will have 802.11b end-to-end by the end of summer. The airport has had it for the last year. The old and new govts. push for this type of infrastructure. New apt. buildings for the last two years come jacked for broadband. If you have a need for speed, this is the place...
that's it....that's the best you can do? A big bad composer and professional blogger like you? C'mon, you can do better than that...I can take it....this is your big chance. Stand up for all bloggers and make me cry like a schoolgirl...give me your best shot...take your time, work on it...you can do it, I know ya can...yawn
Ok, so you composed something, with a clear goal in mind...good for you. Now convince me that uploading it after you're done is anything other than clicking a mouse to complete a cut/paste. One has nothing to do with the other, except to foster a weak rationalization, which closely resembles a troll, me thinks. What...you just want to argue, is that it? bloggers....
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What do you call 100 spammers, chained together, and tossed into the ocean to drown?
A start...
I just convinced her that a hot probe is a good thing.
A volunteer Fire Department in Yonkers has decided to form a bucker brigade from Coney Island, on the East Coast, USA, to Water World in Southern California, if for no other reason than to prove it can be done. They hope to have it in place by the 4th of July....2006.
MacInTouch held this discussion a while back... Might be some useful info in there somewhere. Of course, this was just prior to 800mb FW.
MS didn't 'invest' in Apple out of the goodness in Bills heart. MS did put it's PR machine into high gear in an attempt to rewrite history, however. Funny how Encarta skips over this as well....
So...the same guys hawking phone cards will be more than happy to hook you up.
I thought pay phones were dead.
Try not to be so literal. Not everyone...but certainly many. Of course not everyone wants such a role. Cool...less competion...that's a good thing, no?
Programmers, when properly trained/skilled, are prime examples of individuals that live and die by being organized. They understand how to prototype and draft and forecast. They know how to allocate and redirect and terminate and archive. They now how to start, stop and restart.
These are all things that define project managers. Project management/planning is one of the highest demand categories in modern industry. A good project manager can make or break an otherwise successful product. If you've run out your interest in coding, or you're simply not able to find a programming job, consider project management in any of a hundred fields. You'd be surprised how interesting it can be, and how useful your present skill set is going forward. My background allows me to talk directly to our software people, and they appreciate that. My background allows me to build my own custom tools, instead of writing a clumsy spec that some intern has to try to follow. My background allows me to prototype in minutes what would take a team days...and if someone wants me to make a decision based solely on the information on the white board, my background allows me to imagine the flow of details quickly and with confidence. I manage projects....and without programming skills to back me up, I'd be forced to carry a crystal ball.
Again, many industries need planners and project managers. Don't let the job define you...step in and define your work by your own standards. Find a company with a problem that needs your skills at large, not just as a programmer, but as someone that can see the big and the small of it. Someone that can handle details and deadlines....detours and debates....specifications and routines. You can still write scripts and run data dumps...you're in charge, remember?
Your problem is...your traditional thinking and how you let it limit your imagination. You overlook your ability to change and do. You are a victim of your own age discrimination.
It's a different world now...I promise. Move with it or die...it's really that simple.
Stop being so IT centric and give yourself credit for being able to make decisions without panicing. Then look around and realize what an asset this can be and find an employer that values that. You can jump into any other field and find a home...project management is needed from the medical industry to tourism...from energy management to child adoption.
Why limit yourself, when so many others are already trying to do that as well. You are in charge of you...take a chance and find out what you can really do. You may just learn something about yourself in the process.
I can't argue with you if you insist on being grounded into one train of thought. You win. One company...one industry....one mind set. It seems clear where you're headed.
:)
not good enough to be promoted?...Then they move you out on the ice and wait for the polar bears to eat you. At least when you come back, it will be in the form of something useful....like a fur coat
You'd be surprised. Management today isn't what we grew up with. Like someone earlier said, mentoring is good...call it whatever you like or whatever makes you feel better, but if you've been around the block, you have tons to offer. In my case, I work as a Manager in Asia (electonics manufacturing... R & D). No other wise guys to compete with, and I'm treated and paid great. Think different. Find someone that needs and appreciates the skills you have...don't limit yourself to what's between you and the horizon. You'll lead a happier life, I promise.
And when you find out there are hundreds with the same thing on their business card, and they all know less than you and charge less than you, you'll understand why Webster's defines 'consultant' as: habitually unemployed.
Get serious. You assume only one company...if there was only one company, sure. But the dynamic is such that the ebb and flow results in companies coming and going, with you being able to change who your employer is, not just staying in one place and growing...or not. When my father was working, you had one job and one employer. More than that meant you were 'shifty'. Now, we can have more than one employer every year, and no one sticks us with that same label.
The US is not the only place to look for work, BTW.
You work and live and work and live and one day you turn around....and you realize you 'are' someone or something. If that someone turns out to be a manager, with a better office and better pay and more respect, than so be it. Head, Lead, Manager, Senior....whatever the 'title', if you're not striveing to stand out from those around you, what are you doing? Don't look at 'manager' as a goal, look at it like a next step. What paper boy doesn't want to own the paper?
As an 'old coder' (30 languages since 1968), I can tell you the natural process, that being one of evolution, is for the seniors to become managers. Move up, it's where you belong.
...first one's free.
It amazes me that a book such as this could be banned,
I guess you're too green to remember Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book"......and a bit too charming to know that this kind of 'publicity' helps to sell such books.
"Laugh while you're faking it and smile while you're taking it."
This is the way I did it a couple years back....still working fine.
Not everyone is sitting at 10.2.5.
New computers on the shelf, as an example, are at 10.2.3. This means that 10.2.6 is small over 10.2.5 only...but if you buy a new computer today, or you haven't yet moved to 10.2.5, and you proceed to install 10.2.6, you will see a much longer list.
What part of 'perhaps' in the parent caused you confusion?
All the more valid.
The 10.2.6 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, utilities, services, and technologies:
Address Book
AppleScript
Bluetooth
Classic compatibilit
Disk Copy
Disk Utility
Finder
Graphics
Help Viewer
iChat
Image Capture
IP Firewall
Kerberos
Mail
OpenGL
Print Center
Rendezvous
Sherlock
The update includes improvements to AFP, Web services, dial up connections over PPP, and Windows file services, as well as audio, disc recording, and printing improvements and PC Card, USB, FireWire and SCSI device compatibility enhancements.
The update also provides updated security services and includes the latest Security Updates.
The 10.2.6 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, utilities, services, and technologies: Address Book, AppleScript, Bluetooth, Classic compatibility, Disk Copy, Disk Utility, Finder, Graphics, Help Viewer, iChat, Image Capture, IP Firewall, Kerberos, Mail, OpenGL, Print Center, Rendezvous and Sherlock. The update includes improvements to AFP, Web services, dial up connections over PPP, and Windows file services, as well as audio, disc recording, and printing improvements and PC Card, USB, FireWire and SCSI device compatibility enhancements. The update also provides updated security services and includes the latest Security Updates.
I've lived/worked here in South Korea for the last 4 years. It took me two years to get ADSL, and one year later they bumped me to VDSL for free. Saying the penisula is saturated with connectivity is an understatement.
We're being told the country will have 802.11b end-to-end by the end of summer. The airport has had it for the last year. The old and new govts. push for this type of infrastructure. New apt. buildings for the last two years come jacked for broadband. If you have a need for speed, this is the place...
that's it....that's the best you can do? A big bad composer and professional blogger like you? C'mon, you can do better than that...I can take it....this is your big chance. Stand up for all bloggers and make me cry like a schoolgirl...give me your best shot...take your time, work on it...you can do it, I know ya can...yawn
Ok, so you composed something, with a clear goal in mind...good for you. Now convince me that uploading it after you're done is anything other than clicking a mouse to complete a cut/paste. One has nothing to do with the other, except to foster a weak rationalization, which closely resembles a troll, me thinks. What...you just want to argue, is that it? bloggers....