I can't wait until they retire so they can be replaced with a cron job that doesn't need vacation.
Hire a contractor. That usually scares the crap out of old timers. From my experience most of the time old timers are curious about taking a six month vacation on unemployment benefits, which I strongly recommend against. Only at my government IT job did I get a hostile reception as the old timers thought that contractors were going to replace them. They're getting used to having contractors for nation-wide projects that indirectly make their job easier.
Your winning strategy is to make ageism work for you by getting the same degree every ten years and stagnating at the entry level forever.
Your math is off. My second degree came 13 years after my first degree. I don't plan to get a certificate in project management (seven classes @ $1,000 each) until the 15 year mark (2022), which qualify me for the Project Management Professional.
Both have outdated credentials and the safe assumption is the oldster who looks worthless is worthless.
You need to periodically renew your credentials. I got my associate degree in General Education in 1994 and my second associate degree in Computer Programming in 2007. I list the 2007 degree on my resume. Some hiring managers who hire me over the phone are surprised that I'm not under 30. I'll replace the 2007 degree in five years by taking project management development courses at UCSC Silicon Valley. What most people don't realize is that you have to actively manage your career. No one else will do it for you.
I'm the youngest at 47 in government IT with many grey beards walking around. I'm able to wear my frosty white beard even though the rest of my hair is salt-and-pepper. If I was working in the private sector, the beard will have to come off because it makes me look too old.
Those 2% raises never add up in time. Most people who worked the longest at a company are in the same positions that they started off in. If you want a raise and a promotion,
you need to find a new job every few years.
If you stopped learning at 25, that will not be an option though.
This. I've known people who got stuck in their tech careers because they thought learning was for school and saw no need to learn as an adult. Several became drug store clerks after getting laid off in the dot com bust, taking six month vacations on unemployment benefits, and being told that their skills were obsolete by recruiters. A book, a boot camp or professional development courses was all they needed to jump start their careers.
I had one cup of cottage cheese out of the entire month of May, you have my entire diet figured out. The funny thing is that was my first cup of cottage for the year to date. And then you wonder why I don't read the rest of your comments.
I'm trying to master the rowing machine. It's kicking my ass and it doesn't help that my stomach gets in the way. I also do the cable row with 150 pounds.
Often I've seen big guys like you rip into weights and get really strong.
But I'm not sure why you'd penalize yourself twice for a -1, but not at all for a 0, which is also a down-mod based on your karma level.
I'll double check -1 count and revise the 0 count.
The 7037 "1" moderations suggest that you spent a long time shit-posting with low karma, and relied on having a shitload of posts out here to gain a little positive karma.
Not every post is brilliant. Most of it was just snarky.
People today just want to fight about every little detail in existence.
From this, we can determine that you're a middle-aged man who wrote a very poor Python script to calculate numbers poorly.
Much of the work was in the parser section. Someone wanted a SQlite database option.
Does it sound like a ridiculous parody to you when someone else repeats things you say?
The parody account is not actually repeating me word for word. Some of my positions are being exaggerated to a great degree. For example, JTAG. I know what JTAG is but I don't get many opportunity to discuss electronics because the hardware hackers are long gone on Slashdot.
I note how, it seems as usual, you completely ignore all the actual points made by me and pretend they don't exist.
I'm not obligated to do a point-by-point rebuttal. If I respond to some points but not others, it doesn't mean that I agree with the other points.
Complaining about the environmental waste of it all doesn't sound that convincing when you don't care either.
I don't know why people keep bringing up the environment.
If you're going to ship something, it should be in the appropriately sized box. This past weekend I had to ship a small box via the postal service. I needed a tracking number and $100 insurance. The initial tally was $40. I had to ship a small box inside a much larger medium Priority Mail box to get the price down $16.
you claim is only 1500 calories per day, with regular exercise, you're unable to lose weight
I've been losing weight. The problem is that the scales at the gym max out at 350 pounds. I recently got a digital scale for home. I'm 350 pounds, +/- five pounds.
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What does modularity mean? Why should I care?
Java isn't Perl (yet).
Only three lines of code got changed.
I can't wait until they retire so they can be replaced with a cron job that doesn't need vacation.
Hire a contractor. That usually scares the crap out of old timers. From my experience most of the time old timers are curious about taking a six month vacation on unemployment benefits, which I strongly recommend against. Only at my government IT job did I get a hostile reception as the old timers thought that contractors were going to replace them. They're getting used to having contractors for nation-wide projects that indirectly make their job easier.
Your winning strategy is to make ageism work for you by getting the same degree every ten years and stagnating at the entry level forever.
Your math is off. My second degree came 13 years after my first degree. I don't plan to get a certificate in project management (seven classes @ $1,000 each) until the 15 year mark (2022), which qualify me for the Project Management Professional.
*lifting 1500 calorie blocks if butter 3x a day by the look of it.
https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/871058214455881728
Both have outdated credentials and the safe assumption is the oldster who looks worthless is worthless.
You need to periodically renew your credentials. I got my associate degree in General Education in 1994 and my second associate degree in Computer Programming in 2007. I list the 2007 degree on my resume. Some hiring managers who hire me over the phone are surprised that I'm not under 30. I'll replace the 2007 degree in five years by taking project management development courses at UCSC Silicon Valley. What most people don't realize is that you have to actively manage your career. No one else will do it for you.
I'm the youngest at 47 in government IT with many grey beards walking around. I'm able to wear my frosty white beard even though the rest of my hair is salt-and-pepper. If I was working in the private sector, the beard will have to come off because it makes me look too old.
Kill yourself.
Slashdot's universal answer to every problem in society. Too bad that the advice givers don't follow their own advice.
[...] in the form of rises and promotions.
Those 2% raises never add up in time. Most people who worked the longest at a company are in the same positions that they started off in. If you want a raise and a promotion, you need to find a new job every few years.
DOS and Win3.1 and Linux are all useless [...]
DOS -> DOS/Win3.1 -> Win95(DOS) -> WinXP -> Win10(Linux Bash)
Nothing you said is relevant to mobile apps or cloud automation or social media marketing.
Neither mobile apps nor the cloud has replaced the desktop in the enterprise space.
You don't have any skills. Time for you to die.
I'm holding up a finger. Take a guess which one.
If you stopped learning at 25, that will not be an option though.
This. I've known people who got stuck in their tech careers because they thought learning was for school and saw no need to learn as an adult. Several became drug store clerks after getting laid off in the dot com bust, taking six month vacations on unemployment benefits, and being told that their skills were obsolete by recruiters. A book, a boot camp or professional development courses was all they needed to jump start their careers.
No, I got too much muscle to float. But I can jog in the swimming pool with the waterline at my jowls.
[...] a bowl of fatty cottage cheese [...]
I had one cup of cottage cheese out of the entire month of May, you have my entire diet figured out. The funny thing is that was my first cup of cottage for the year to date. And then you wonder why I don't read the rest of your comments.
You're a failure at almost everything you try, you know that?
You only fail if you give up.
Except failure itself.
You can't learn without failing.
And if you weren't a disingenuous piece of shit, you'd give the files different names!
Why? I can do whatever I want with my website.
What workouts do you enjoy?
I'm trying to master the rowing machine. It's kicking my ass and it doesn't help that my stomach gets in the way. I also do the cable row with 150 pounds.
Often I've seen big guys like you rip into weights and get really strong.
Getting big is easy. I want to tone down.
See what a disingenuous lying sack of shit he is?
The pictures are one year apart. When some reposted the link, I replaced the old picture with the new picture from last month.
Negative mods should be deducted from the total.
Good point.
But I'm not sure why you'd penalize yourself twice for a -1, but not at all for a 0, which is also a down-mod based on your karma level.
I'll double check -1 count and revise the 0 count.
The 7037 "1" moderations suggest that you spent a long time shit-posting with low karma, and relied on having a shitload of posts out here to gain a little positive karma.
Not every post is brilliant. Most of it was just snarky. People today just want to fight about every little detail in existence.
From this, we can determine that you're a middle-aged man who wrote a very poor Python script to calculate numbers poorly.
Much of the work was in the parser section. Someone wanted a SQlite database option.
Does it sound like a ridiculous parody to you when someone else repeats things you say?
The parody account is not actually repeating me word for word. Some of my positions are being exaggerated to a great degree. For example, JTAG. I know what JTAG is but I don't get many opportunity to discuss electronics because the hardware hackers are long gone on Slashdot.
I note how, it seems as usual, you completely ignore all the actual points made by me and pretend they don't exist.
I'm not obligated to do a point-by-point rebuttal. If I respond to some points but not others, it doesn't mean that I agree with the other points.
I've read your drivel of over a week now since you seem to have posting on slashdot as your job.
There are two of us now: "creimer" is my account and "criemer" is the unofficial parody account that someone else set up. Enjoy!
Maybe you should start working out at the zoo?
That's where Slashdot comes into play.
Complaining about the environmental waste of it all doesn't sound that convincing when you don't care either.
I don't know why people keep bringing up the environment. If you're going to ship something, it should be in the appropriately sized box. This past weekend I had to ship a small box via the postal service. I needed a tracking number and $100 insurance. The initial tally was $40. I had to ship a small box inside a much larger medium Priority Mail box to get the price down $16.
you claim is only 1500 calories per day, with regular exercise, you're unable to lose weight
I've been losing weight. The problem is that the scales at the gym max out at 350 pounds. I recently got a digital scale for home. I'm 350 pounds, +/- five pounds.