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Fear of not keeping up with the Technical Joneses is a huge influence in our industry because everyone sees "old" programmers booted first when a company or the
by tabtab 8y ago
Fear of not keeping up with the Technical Joneses is a huge influence in our industry because everyone sees "old" programmers booted first when a company or the economy sours. Nobody wants to be That Guy (or Gal).
If mainframes are perceived as a shrinking or outmoded technology, obsolescence fear kicks in and people avoid it. It may need some clever marketing to trick people into giving up that fear or impression. BS works in other areas, per mind-share. Call mainframes "high-up-time cloud", Cloud++, cloud.js, Deep Cloud, or something. There's better BS'ers out there than I.
- DanFeldman 8y agoLocal-cloud or onprem-cloud!
- giancarlostoro 8y agoDunno, I'm a millennial (didn't even know I was part of that group till recently, gotta love being profiled by things I cannot control) and all it took me to like Mainframes (although I don't work with them) was hearing an older developer tell me all about them and their capabilities. I'm a total computer nerd aside from a programmer so I love learning about tech old, new and upcoming.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoYeah, all it would take for me to take on a mainframe is "we need someone for a permanent position that you can live on". I'm in this profession because I loved computers as a kid and it's never stopped. You wanna show me something novel? I'll be happy to learn it (assuming there's a livable job in there at the same time). They just have to be willing to teach it.
- woodrowbarlow 8y agothat's funny, i'm a so-called millennial and all it took me to like embedded programming was hearing an older developer tell me all about its limitations.