Originally posted by SimonMac
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There are a lot of whinging IT contractors
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It is often a new breed of first time contractor who has those skills.Many contractors are left floundering on the beach with old skills when a recovery comes and are not able to get work, competing with many other contractors with the old skills over fewer and fewer jobs that use those old skills.
I'm sure the old mainframe programmers, who still earn a very good living, due to scarcity, wouldn't go along with him.
Similarly, I have worked with a lot of older BAs, PMs, Programme Managers, etc. I bet we all have.
Even most of the trolley dollies that make up, most, HR departments are contractors, now.The Chunt of Chunts.Comment
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Originally posted by MrMarkyMark View PostSo much BS in those quotes you don'y know where to start.
I'm sure the old mainframe programmers, who still earn a very good living, due to scarcity, wouldn't go along with him.
Similarly, I have worked with a lot of older BAs, PMs, Programme Managers, etc. I bet we all have.
Even most of the trolley dollies that make up, most, HR departments are contractors, now.Comment
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Originally posted by cojak View PostIf you're a dev in your forties or fifties I would imagine that you're rather good at it and you enjoy the work...
And no young whippersnappers coming up behind me either - not since large scale off-shoring.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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You didnt uses to be able to link to that site from this, guess admin no longer views it as a threat. Back in the day the bloke who owns it ran computercontractor.net the forum of which made General look like a girl guide meeting.Comment
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Originally posted by expat View PostIt applies to old mainframe programmers too: they will not be getting contracts now unless their mainframe experience is current. I speak from experience: I have 15 years mainframe experience but it's not current mainframe stuff. My old mainframe skills are MVS COBOL BAL CICS JCL CLISTs etc, and you can't get a contract with that.“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by ZARDOZ View PostYou didnt uses to be able to link to that site from this, guess admin no longer views it as a threat. Back in the day the bloke who owns it ran computercontractor.net the forum of which made General look like a girl guide meeting.Comment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostTell me about it....Comment
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostYou can, because I still do although I have 'upskilled' as well so that not only can I use the old, yet both relevant and required, skills I can integrate them with the new stuffComment
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Originally posted by ZARDOZ View Postcomputercontractor.net the forum of which made General look like a girl guide meeting.How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't thinkComment
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