The Personally Discovered Joys of Being Unemployed

[Fang]

Sounds like you suck as a software engineer. Otherwise, someone in IT would hire you. Not to mention, CUT IN PAY mean anything to you??? Why do you assume you should make more than a 23 year old? Do you need to be in IT? Sales? Wait tables? Fast Food? Your conservative friends are quite correct you lazy POS.

Do you have any clue what a dick you just made yourself out to be?

Any at all? I am almost 60 years old, in another couple of years and only 0.5% of all software engineers are over 60.

Did you read any of the several posts I put up on age discrimination in the software industry?

Did you read about my having just come off of disability, another big black mark for HR drones.

And your final conclusion is that I am being lazy, lol.


You are just another example of a Conservatarian self absorbed shit4brains whose entire values system is nothing more than a complex way of telling the world go to hell you dont give a shit.

roflmao

I have a degree in Computer Science and have been working in IT for over 25 years. I have no issue holding a job and neither do the people close to retirement in my company - or any company I've been a part of. Don't make excuses for your own short comings. Good IT professionals who KEEP UP WITH TECHNOLOGY and simply solve business problems with little management overhead are in demand regardless of age. There may even be a time when you might have accept less money. It's part of the business. You're just as much a lazy ass as the OP. OP should not have made his employment issues a Republican problem. Perhaps I may have had more sympathy.

Where do you live?
What Technology are y9u involved with?
What Industry are you in?

NY, NJ and many other Business Visa havens are dead for non-Indians.

Won't divulge where I live or the industry. Right now I am a contractor. But way back when I started out in C then moved to Visual Basic. By the late 90's I learned how to develop for the web with ASP, JavaScript. Since then I've moved onto .Net, JQuery, SQL Server, C#, some Java. Yes, I've seen jobs goto to India. No doubt it sucks. But it's been my experience that competent developers who write good code, regardless of age, are in demand. I've also witnessed the older a developer gets, the harder it is for him/her to change and learn new technology. It's a tough business with ever changing technology, demands and deadlines.

In other words, you're not in a Business Visa inundated region.

Nope

 

[Uncensored2008]

Mainframes have a niche market in the IT world and you would know that if you were not a posturing fool who doesnt know a god damned thing about computers.

But he is right. You and I have talked about this before. You are offering a skill set aimed at obsolete technology. It isn't your age, but the skills you offer that are the problem. There is a lot of demand for network technicians with an MCSE, CCIE, and dozens of other skill sets. Learn Linux, most embedded controllers are moving to it now that XP is dead. The point is, in IT you have to keep your skills up to date. Learn ESX and VSphere. If you have skills that are in demand, people will hire you.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I did those until 1991 then when MS all the way.
Then Bill Gates came along.

I don't understand?

By the 1990's C(++) had emerged as the dominant language, but what does Gates have to do with it?

Honestly, there is a plug in that will let you code COBOL in .Net and link as a standard .Net assembly. Might be a little clumsy building COBOL snippets into objects on forms, but the compiler will crunch it into .Net P code.

 

[Indeependent]

I did those until 1991 then when MS all the way.
Then Bill Gates came along.

I don't understand?

By the 1990's C(++) had emerged as the dominant language, but what does Gates have to do with it?

Honestly, there is a plug in that will let you code COBOL in .Net and link as a standard .Net assembly. Might be a little clumsy building COBOL snippets into objects on forms, but the compiler will crunch it into .Net P code.

Gates created the "Americans lack the skill-set" meme.
I never got a call after day 1 of GW's 2nd term that wasn't from an Indian I didn't understand.

 

[Uncensored2008]

they pay minimum wage, maybe a dollar more.

So $80K or so?

 

[Indeependent]

I did those until 1991 then when MS all the way.
Then Bill Gates came along.

I don't understand?

By the 1990's C(++) had emerged as the dominant language, but what does Gates have to do with it?

Honestly, there is a plug in that will let you code COBOL in .Net and link as a standard .Net assembly. Might be a little clumsy building COBOL snippets into objects on forms, but the compiler will crunch it into .Net P code.

VAX COBOL

You've got 20+ years experience with computers, and you can't find a job?


Check with Best Buy, other stores that sell computers. Your knowledge in the field would put you on the floor with no problem.

Don't want that?

Start your own company, computer repair, analyst, etc..

Or get in with an established company doing that kind of work.

they pay minimum wage, maybe a dollar more.

BestBuy pays $8.00/hour.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Gates created the "Americans lack the skill-set" meme.
I never got a call after day 1 of GW's 2nd term that wasn't from an Indian I didn't understand.

Yeah, bullshit.

I saw more call centers in India under Clinton than any other time.

 

[Fang]

I did those until 1991 then when MS all the way.
Then Bill Gates came along.

I don't understand?

By the 1990's C(++) had emerged as the dominant language, but what does Gates have to do with it?

Honestly, there is a plug in that will let you code COBOL in .Net and link as a standard .Net assembly. Might be a little clumsy building COBOL snippets into objects on forms, but the compiler will crunch it into .Net P code.

Gates created the "Americans lack the skill-set" meme.
I never got a call after day 1 of GW's 2nd term that wasn't from an Indian I didn't understand.

So your lack of skillset and keeping up with the industry is President Bush's fault?

 

[Yousaidwhat]

Oracle and software management. Microsoft management. Fredericksburg VA.

Management may be the alternative. Appears you have skills.

Best of luck to you Jim.

 

[Indeependent]

Gates created the "Americans lack the skill-set" meme.
I never got a call after day 1 of GW's 2nd term that wasn't from an Indian I didn't understand.

Yeah, bullshit.

I saw more call centers in India under Clinton than any other time.

And more coders under GW.

 

[Indeependent]

I did those until 1991 then when MS all the way.
Then Bill Gates came along.

I don't understand?

By the 1990's C(++) had emerged as the dominant language, but what does Gates have to do with it?

Honestly, there is a plug in that will let you code COBOL in .Net and link as a standard .Net assembly. Might be a little clumsy building COBOL snippets into objects on forms, but the compiler will crunch it into .Net P code.

Gates created the "Americans lack the skill-set" meme.
I never got a call after day 1 of GW's 2nd term that wasn't from an Indian I didn't understand.

So your lack of skillset and keeping up with the industry is President Bush's fault?

Until you post your industry and region you are irrelevant to this discussion.

 

[Uncensored2008]

VAX COBOL

VAX is 30 years dead.

DEC is 30 years dead.

 

[Indeependent]

VAX COBOL

VAX is 30 years dead.

DEC is 30 years dead.

OMG! How many discussions do we have to have before you remember anything I post?
Are you THAT arrogant?
I was an MS developer from 1981 and on.

 

[Uncensored2008]

And more coders under GW.

And even more under Obammy.

But Microsoft moved development BACK to America, after the disaster that was Office 2007. There is rumor that even EvilCorp (Apple) might allow Americans to work again.

 

[Uncensored2008]

OMG! How many discussions do we have to have before you remember anything I post?
Are you THAT arrogant?
I was an MS developer from 1981 and on.

Why then do you post about VAX, a PDP-11 system?

And am I that arrogant?

Well, yeah....

 

[Indeependent]

And more coders under GW.

And even more under Obammy.

But Microsoft moved development BACK to America, after the disaster that was Office 2007. There is rumor that even EvilCorp (Apple) might allow Americans to work again.

Over 98% of MS employees are Indians.

 

[Indeependent]

OMG! How many discussions do we have to have before you remember anything I post?
Are you THAT arrogant?
I was an MS developer from 1981 and on.

Why then do you post about VAX, a PDP-11 system?

And am I that arrogant?

Well, yeah....

I was responding to the phony Fang.
Arrogant or memory loss.

 

[Uncensored2008]

And more coders under GW.

And even more under Obammy.

But Microsoft moved development BACK to America, after the disaster that was Office 2007. There is rumor that even EvilCorp (Apple) might allow Americans to work again.

Over 98% of MS employees are Indians.

Cite?

 

[Indeependent]

And more coders under GW.

And even more under Obammy.

But Microsoft moved development BACK to America, after the disaster that was Office 2007. There is rumor that even EvilCorp (Apple) might allow Americans to work again.

Over 98% of MS employees are Indians.

Cite?

I saw a documentary on PBS.
Challenge...Try watching MS events on YouTube and find Waldo not from India.

 

[WillowTree]

Your post is funny and I was going to enthusiastically cheer you until you blamed free trade and Republicans for your jobless state. McDonald's is always hiring, get your lazy ass to work.

You are an asshole.