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This article is a rehash of X articles which themselves are constantly being rehashed. I bet Zuckerberg wishes that quote would die. It was one moment of his l

by gexla 9y ago

This article is a rehash of X articles which themselves are constantly being rehashed. I bet Zuckerberg wishes that quote would die. It was one moment of his life in which he gave that quote and now he's anchored to it for eternity. Yesterday I was listening to an old interview of Musk in which he was talking about the demographic bomb which much of the world faces. Does the Japan workforce also suffer from ageism? Tech is a big field. I can't see programmers widely falling behind in skills and looking for employers to get them caught up. It seems the responsibility for this is on the worker.

kensey 9y ago
The reality though is it may be the employer who has caused the employee to fall behind/out of relevance. Quick example: while working on a federal contract I had a co-worker who was in charge of the contract's Altiris infrastructure. That was all he was allowed to charge time for on that contract and it was the only contract he was on. To learn something new he either 1) had to carve it out of his personal time, 2) commit federal timesheet fraud or 3) take a pay cut. Meanwhile others of us were being sent off to learn new products like vSphere. Speculation was that our management was deliberately monopolizing his time on this one thing because it was getting hard to find people to do Altiris and they didn't want to pay for teaching him something more relevant and have him use it to get a new job elsewhere. Eventually, he did find another job and moved on, and I got a steady stream of recruiters who saw Altiris on my resume because it had been a big part of my duties at that and my previous employer. Nope, I already know where that trapdoor goes, thanks but no thanks. Now if your employer does offer continuing-ed/tech-training and you don't take full advantage of it, that's on you, although even that can be hard since some employers offer it only if it's job-relevant -- e.g. only the Windows tech staff can take Microsoft training, only the Linux staff can take Red Hat courses, only the networking staff can take Cisco courses, etc.

by gexla 9y ago

kensey 9y ago

The reality though is it may be the employer who has caused the employee to fall behind/out of relevance. Quick example: while working on a federal contract I had a co-worker who was in charge of the contract's Altiris infrastructure. That was all he was allowed to charge time for on that contract and it was the only contract he was on. To learn something new he either 1) had to carve it out of his personal time, 2) commit federal timesheet fraud or 3) take a pay cut. Meanwhile others of us were being sent off to learn new products like vSphere. Speculation was that our management was deliberately monopolizing his time on this one thing because it was getting hard to find people to do Altiris and they didn't want to pay for teaching him something more relevant and have him use it to get a new job elsewhere. Eventually, he did find another job and moved on, and I got a steady stream of recruiters who saw Altiris on my resume because it had been a big part of my duties at that and my previous employer. Nope, I already know where that trapdoor goes, thanks but no thanks. Now if your employer does offer continuing-ed/tech-training and you don't take full advantage of it, that's on you, although even that can be hard since some employers offer it only if it's job-relevant -- e.g. only the Windows tech staff can take Microsoft training, only the Linux staff can take Red Hat courses, only the networking staff can take Cisco courses, etc.