What is on Your Mind?

I'm not really conflicted as my post suggests. I plan on staying current in IT because a) I love the work, b) because I have seen over and again how quickly folk's skills become obsolete, c) still pays the bills. Money isn't my primary motivator by any means, I quit working a really good hourly contracting position to stay on permanent where I am now, which has been the funnest IT job that I have had so far. I feel bad for people who hate thier line of work; I can't identify with that at all.

You wouldn't happen to work for Sun would you ?
I guess Jean-Pierre is a common name in France, but I once knew a Jean-Pierre from Sun in France.

My turn to contribute to the conversation. I'm 55 - got started as a mainframe operator when I was in high school around 17 years of age. The natural progression was to become a applications programmer, then a systems programmer.

I enjoy puttering around on my two Linux systems at home as well as the Windows XP. My wife enjoys working with photos, text, and many other things. I like to webcam with friends around the U.S. and world.

The internet is our window to the world - these forums are great fun cause one gets to meet so many different types of personalities.

I like to divide my away-from-work time with outdoor activities and PC activities; it's not one or the other.

Cool... another old-timer! Please cast a vote in the above poll as well.

Done.

I think we are as old as we feel... and I strive to not act my age.

it's too bad that our bodies actually show our age more than our attitudes ... i feel like i'm still in my 20s but my nose hairs are getting gray too so i guess i can't deny my age anymore ...

oh well ...


looking forward to retirement!

I noticed one thing, the 'old' guys (pardon the usage of the term), have been working on computers since their high school or something like that. The newer guys (that probably includes most of the people below 30) have probably done their bachelor's degrees in some engineering, maths or comp. sci. related fields and then moved into this field (a natural progression, I think).

In fact, I didn't use unix till I started working. I had implemented simple commands like cp and ls in C but didn't know how they worked in unix!