On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 19:29 +0000, Samuel Penn wrote:
> On Sunday 22 Feb 2015 17:52:23 Stephen Davies wrote:
> > No one taught me all this stuff. There are no University Courses or real
> > 'how to Text Books' on the subject.
> >
> > The job description does not fit into tidy little boxes. Some employers
> > and especially recruitment agencies just can't grok that you know all
> > this stuff.
> > You are the Jack of All trades.
> [...snip...]
> > I see no programmes out there that will even begin to skill up my
> > replacements. That is a problem that no one is even remotely trying to
> > solve.
>
> I'm not sure I agree. I've worked most of my life as a consultant for
> small companies, getting thrown into projects involving tools and products
> I'd never heard of, but expected to learn it all quickly.
Actually I think you probably are agreeing, but maybe you don't realise
it.
> Pretty much everyone I've worked with has had to do the same, because in
> a small company you can't afford to have anyone specialise.
>
> You may start as a 'developer', but after ten years of doing this your
> skill set is a lot broader.
Indeed. And I think that's exactly where Stephen you and I all agree,
but what those not fully involved in technologies usually fail to
recognise.
At any moment one is faced with a number of things that are familiar and
a number of this that are quite new and unfamiliar. The higher the
percentage of the former the quicker the latter can be assimilated.
Most of the time (IMHO), it isn't particularly the tools so much as the
concepts and strategies that need to be understood, and also that there
are many ways to skin a cat. Not that as a vegetarian and animal lover I
would do such a thing :-)
Gordon.
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