Nice Fairytale for the youngsters. Now for the real story. 51-22 = 29 years of programming for the same company. Which means John started programming about th

Nice Fairytale for the youngsters. Now for the real story. 51-22 = 29 years of programming for the same company. Which means John started programming about the time the IBM XT came out. So I doubt his MASM 4.1 and C skills would have lasted him the 29 years he worked at BIG JOB. In fact, given the pace of change, its pretty much a go he didn't last 29 years at any single BIG JOB. Worse yet, when John started he likely worked on a Mainframe or Micro using VMS or a commercial *nix variant and had COBOL skills. Since the WWW was still a text based protocol running on a military network John wasn't likely to have any Internet skills at this point. John likely ran a Wildcat BBS, or E systems communication system using dialup. John did this until about 1992 when the Net finally took. Along the way John continued with COBOL and his Mainframe buddies shifted over to the net. After Y2K fewer and fewer of his buddies stayed in COBOL and the market for his skills went through the roof. Today John still hacks out COBOL for legacy systems and makes about triple what he did in 1989 when he started because the idiot children of this age think the only way you can carve out a living is with your RUBY slippers, drinking a cup of JAVA, while you fight it out with INDIA for your job. But John doesn't have that problem, because believe it or not he knows what an AS400 is, and YOU DO NOT. John is socking away enough bank by being available for legacy gigs because the market passed him by. Thank god for that... And yes I know John. More than a couple of us old farts do... Now lets stroll down that hill and have a poke with all them cows.... 2 centavos..