What have you done today? (Pt 2)

[odeon]

Went for a walk then submitted my application for the bank job.

Bank job?

[rock hound]

Making Spanish Rice and pork tonite.  Using pork tenderloin!  YUM

[renaeden]

Went for a walk then submitted my application for the bank job.

Bank job?

Yep. The recruiters are the Australian Computer Society. They are the ones I sent my application to. The job is at a bank in the city. It happens to be the bank I have accounts with. I had to send in a cover letter, resumé and proof of my diagnosis. If I get the job I'll have to get a police clearance as well.

[Gopher Gary]

Went for a walk then submitted my application for the bank job.

Will you buy me something when you get your fancy bank job? 

Of course. If I get it, it would mean $10,000 for three months' work.

I'll take a cold 20oz bottle of Cherry Coke Zero, please. We can even share it, if you don't mind gopher spit. 

[odeon]

Went for a walk then submitted my application for the bank job.

Bank job?

Yep. The recruiters are the Australian Computer Society. They are the ones I sent my application to. The job is at a bank in the city. It happens to be the bank I have accounts with. I had to send in a cover letter, resumé and proof of my diagnosis. If I get the job I'll have to get a police clearance as well.

Good luck. I hope you get it.

[rock hound]

Shoveled snow, stressed out and called out from walmart....and thankfully so.  They don't give a shit about me and I reciprocate!

[Yuri Bezmenov]

Shoveled snow, stressed out and called out from walmart....and thankfully so.  They don't give a shit about me and I reciprocate!

It's the same thing with my company, if I dropped dead, they would only be concerned with how to replace me. The only upside that I have is that the pay is pretty good and the work isn't physically demanding.

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

Went for a walk then submitted my application for the bank job.

Bank job?

Yep. The recruiters are the Australian Computer Society. They are the ones I sent my application to. The job is at a bank in the city. It happens to be the bank I have accounts with. I had to send in a cover letter, resumé and proof of my diagnosis. If I get the job I'll have to get a police clearance as well.

I got my first IT job through a program run by the Australian Computer Society in 1984.

[rock hound]

Shoveled snow, stressed out and called out from walmart....and thankfully so.  They don't give a shit about me and I reciprocate!

It's the same thing with my company, if I dropped dead, they would only be concerned with how to replace me. The only upside that I have is that the pay is pretty good and the work isn't physically demanding.

That's how corporate america is these days.  I could drop dead on the job and the job posting would be up before my corpse was cold! 

[renaeden]

Went for a walk then submitted my application for the bank job.

Bank job?

Yep. The recruiters are the Australian Computer Society. They are the ones I sent my application to. The job is at a bank in the city. It happens to be the bank I have accounts with. I had to send in a cover letter, resumé and proof of my diagnosis. If I get the job I'll have to get a police clearance as well.

I got my first IT job through a program run by the Australian Computer Society in 1984.

I didn't know they'd been around for so long.

While I was walking this morning, I realised that "bank job" kind of sounds like a bank robbery. Whoops.

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

Went for a walk then submitted my application for the bank job.

Bank job?

Yep. The recruiters are the Australian Computer Society. They are the ones I sent my application to. The job is at a bank in the city. It happens to be the bank I have accounts with. I had to send in a cover letter, resumé and proof of my diagnosis. If I get the job I'll have to get a police clearance as well.

I got my first IT job through a program run by the Australian Computer Society in 1984.

I didn't know they'd been around for so long.

While I was walking this morning, I realised that "bank job" kind of sounds like a bank robbery. Whoops.

The Australian Computer Society was founded in 1966.

I was hired through the Computer Industry Training Program, which they ran. They sent us off for an 8 week COBOL course, where we filled out coding sheets and sent them off to be turned into punched cards. So high tech. People were saying that there wouldn't be any programming jobs within 10 years, so it was just a short term career and we'd need to find something else to do by the time we turned 30. By that time there would be 5th or 6th generation languages that could compile ordinary language into object code. That is what many people actually believed then.

This was in the days of real skills shortages. Selection for the traineeship was via an aptitude test. The only educational requirements were that you needed to have an above average mark in the HSC (final exams in high school).

The Australian Computer Society has changed a lot in terms of its "business model". It now makes a lot of money from validating the qualifications and experience of IT professionals who come in on 457 visas and skilled migration programs. And they now actively promote a non-existent need to bring in more and more skilled IT professionals from overseas.  Because that's what pays their salaries. A lot of people in the IT industry, and people who have been squeezed out of the local IT industry, now despise the ACS. I am in two minds obviously, I appreciate the start they gave me but I don't like what they have become.

[odeon]

COBOL? That was a while back. Does granddaddy do LISP, too?

[Lestat]

LOL Ren, I saw that too. A mental image of you donning a black balaclava (and  skin-tight leather catsuit *innocent smile*) whilst feeding shells  into the magazine of a 12ga autoloader,  watching from behind those icy  blue  tinted glasses of yours.

Altogether, quite a nice thought

You'll be needing a  demolitions specialist,  of course..just the matter of my cut, then look no further.  Shaped charges, thermite, smoke bombs, surface-to-air, white phosphorus, corrosives....I'm your guy if you need doors blown in, buildings collapsed, pork roasted on the  bone, entrances boobytrapped....I might not have been blowing things up for a while,  but one never forgets one's childhood skills

And  hey, being autistic, makes me  very creative.

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

COBOL? That was a while back. Does granddaddy do LISP, too?

Still plenty of COBOL programmers around, some of my friends still work in COBOL, although a big chunk of COBOL work has been offshored obviously. I remember hearing 20 years ago that 70% of business software around the world was written in COBOL. These days it's legacy systems that use COBOL, stuff that was written 3 or 4 or 5 decades ago that is still in use. Some of those legacy systems are very difficult to replace.

I never used LISP.

//Edit: When i was starting out in 1984 I met people who were surprised that COBOL was still being used even then. Some had bought the 4GL hype.

[Lestat]

After taking account of  vessels containing a certain bright yellow, crystalline and although not actually itself illegal, most certainly rather naughty material, found out that including the two I was well aware of, there's actually about 7 or 8 fair sized batches that are in need of recrystallization and being turned to other naughty, and if it were buyable for a private individual at all, VERY tightly watched goods, that again, isn't illegal, but a certain ketone, or it's corresponding ketoxime that has rather a lot of financial value for an unwatched, untraceable quantity.

Haven't been able to weigh it all, since some is in solution, and the various lots are of differing purity, so I wouldn't mix them all up in one big batch, but I was actually quite surprised by the quantity around.  Methinks I ought to get round to purifying and recrystallizing as much of that as possible, hopefully I can get around to it today if I can find the motivation.