emtboy9 asks:
"As the semester winds to a close, exams fall upon us students once again. Today, outside of one of my programming classes, I overheard a conversation between a pair of middle aged women about programming degrees (which they are involved in), and this made me wonder. With the job market in IT being as pathetic as it is, what are the real-world chances of someone who is taking a programming course getting a job. In the places I have worked, all the coders were fairly young. So the question is, what are the chances for an older person, who is just now learning programming to get a job in that field?" Ask Slashdot last touched on this topic back
in February of 2001. In the intervening two years, have things gotten worse or better for those who have been in the industry for a long time?
"With the increasing popularity in such places, tech and trade schools and even colleges and universities are spitting out MCSEs, CCNAs, A+, Net+, etc certified techs, as well as people of all ages (one person in my VB class is nearly 60) who are trained to write code.
With that in mind, I guess I thought I would throw that out to the Slashdot crowd to see what kind of experiences they have either as a middle aged person entering the IT workforce for the first time, or as a younger tech, or even a manager, faced with either working with, or hiring someone who is from a completely different generation."
17+ = "Forget about it gramps!" (Score:5, Funny)
Linux?? (Score:1, Funny)
SuDZ
Awwwww yeah (Score:0, Funny)
l33t! 1337,1337,1337, l33t!
Whooooooo let the H4X0R out?
l33t! 1337,1337,1337, l33t!
Whooooooo let the H4X0R out?
l33t! 1337,1337,1337, l33t!
Whooooooo let the H4X0R out?
l33t! 1337,1337,1337, l33t!
Whooooooo let the H4X0R out?
l33t! 1337,1337,1337, l33t!
Who knows, we just called those guys dad... (Score:5, Funny)
I saw that Dad 2 got a job with a local software company. It was good to see him go because it was gross to see him always hit on all of those mediocre cs girls.
You know... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who knows, we just called those guys dad... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Open Source-Coding cheaply. (Score:1, Funny)
Gasoline bill, insurance, and food. Life is so much easier living out of the car. Washing up at gas stations, and eating at fast food places. Do a little coding with a Model 100, and surf at the library. The rest? Well the creditors can fight over whatever, if any is left. Credit rating? Don't need it.
Re:Who knows, we just called those guys dad... (Score:2, Funny)
--the cs major with boobs
Re:Who knows, we just called those guys dad... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why young coders suck (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Been there...done that (Score:3, Funny)
Re:17+ = "Forget about it gramps!" (Score:1, Funny)
Thanks. At least I now understand why that red LED in the palm of my hand keeps flashing.
Re:Why young coders suck (Score:2, Funny)
Heresy! Ban thee from slashdot and taketh away thou Geek Card!
Re:Who knows, we just called those guys dad... (Score:5, Funny)
Max
Re:It ain't cuz they're geniuses... (Score:5, Funny)
I had just come back from a week of training, only to have the server hosting the application I'm responsible for have a complete meltdown. I had an all-nighter just getting the thing back up, and was at work until 7 the next evening restoring the data. All this, mind you, with my wife at home alone with our three month old child. I drive home, no one there. I figure they must be at the park, and walk toward it. I see my wife coming the other way, pushing the stroller, and hear her say loudly "Look Charles, It's Uncle Daddy!"
I still feel it when the nights get cold...
Re:Older coders welcomed where needed (Score:3, Funny)
I agree. invest in a ski mask and start robbing cenvenience stores.
Advantages & Disadvantages (Score:5, Funny)
1. Work cheap
2. Work long, work hard
3. Don't die as easily.
Bad Things about young coders
1. Transient, bored easily
2. Fuck everything in site
3. Inexperienced.
4. Priorities b0rked (cock first, code later)
5. Client schmlient
6. Fuck everything in site
7. Normalization is too conformist
8. Want everyone else's job
9. Fuck everything in site
Good Things about older coders
1. Stable
2. Experienced
3. Choosy about who to fuck
Bad Things about older coders
1. I forget
-mike
-- Karma Whore? You betcha!
Re:No geezers need apply. (Score:3, Funny)
Late night haxor (Score:3, Funny)
Halfway through the code were some comments. It was my code. D'oh.