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[JimOttley]

tight

Seriously Les, to stay at the front of the technology game at my age is a time consuming process.

Although I am no longer an independent consultant I still have to keep up to date which basically means I have to teach myself every new programming technology from scratch in my own time, at the moment that's WPF and Silverlight and as I am a controls developer I'm not looking at just the surface layer of how to use this stuff.

When I was working for myself I would do 8 hours on site then often another 3 or 4 hours working on personal projects each night often these were basically self education projects, when someone then comes along with a knacked PC with lost data that's going to take at least 4 hours to recover my patience starts to wear a bit thin.

When I was working for myself Saturday and Sunday were also working days and even I would get sick of the sight of a PC sometimes

I even get depressed when I have to install my own machines now


Jim

[somebody]

Seriously Les, to stay at the front of the technology game at my age is a time consuming process.

Although I am no longer an independent consultant I still have to keep up to date which basically means I have to teach myself every new programming technology from scratch in my own time, at the moment that's WPF and Silverlight and as I am a controls developer I'm not looking at just the surface layer of how to use this stuff.

When I was working for myself I would do 8 hours on site then often another 3 or 4 hours working on personal projects each night often these were basically self education projects, when someone then comes along with a knacked PC with lost data that's going to take at least 4 hours to recover my patience starts to wear a bit thin.

When I was working for myself Saturday and Sunday were also working days and even I would get sick of the sight of a PC sometimes

I even get depressed when I have to install my own machines now


Jim

Why many people drop out of IT and in those jobs involving new Technolgy. As it never moves still and is like a running machine stop still and in a few seconds your be flying into the fat bloke on rowing machine behind you

Like you Jim evry day im having to understand a new concept, technolgy or learn new skills. While some old ones you learned you think why did i bother as they just dissapear while others you keep having to work on and keep abreast of as the newer staff dont have the experience etc.

While on holiday recently i didn't once ,talk or see anything I.T related and it was heaven

Then the day after getting back and a long day of catch up with the emails and whats going on blah blah just as I sit down to chill out the Wifes best mate in the UK rings up witrh a problem on her Apple MAC

[joebloggs]

Wifes best mate in the UK rings up witrh a problem on her Apple MAC

answer don't do MACs

[les_taxi]

Seriously Les, to stay at the front of the technology game at my age is a time consuming process.

Although I am no longer an independent consultant I still have to keep up to date which basically means I have to teach myself every new programming technology from scratch in my own time, at the moment that's WPF and Silverlight and as I am a controls developer I'm not looking at just the surface layer of how to use this stuff.

When I was working for myself I would do 8 hours on site then often another 3 or 4 hours working on personal projects each night often these were basically self education projects, when someone then comes along with a knacked PC with lost data that's going to take at least 4 hours to recover my patience starts to wear a bit thin.

When I was working for myself Saturday and Sunday were also working days and even I would get sick of the sight of a PC sometimes

I even get depressed when I have to install my own machines now


Jim

i know the feeling i hate driving myself to asda