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jgasm wrote:
i have no future.
See, you've been successfully brainwashed by the 21st century work ethic. If you don't work for the man, you have no future. fuck the man. Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
f*** the man.
It's really hard to not add a few extra phrases.
My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long
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my department is being boxed and shipped to another city i have no future. X|
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Well I believe it's because right now there are 2 headquarters and they are trying to make it into 1 headquarters. And since the other "headquarters" involved all of the vp's and ceo's...you get the idea ;)
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Fair enough. I can understand why it would be harder for you to be optimistic than for people to give you an optimistic reply, but, unless there's just no work in your area, if you're good at what you do, I'm sure you'll find something soon enough. I'd start looking now, not when your current job ends.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Fair enough. I can understand why it would be harder for you to be optimistic than for people to give you an optimistic reply, but, unless there's just no work in your area, if you're good at what you do, I'm sure you'll find something soon enough. I'd start looking now, not when your current job ends.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
Christian Graus wrote:
if you're good at what you do
great! i knew there'd be a catch...
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my department is being boxed and shipped to another city i have no future. X|
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Just remember that you were looking for a job when you found that one so nothing has changed except some time went by.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
And his skillset has surely improved...
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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my department is being boxed and shipped to another city i have no future. X|
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Try to think of it as a new beginning. Scary, I know. I was informed recently that my department will cease to exist on December 31, 2007. Being outsourced to a huge corporation. I'm 55 and, like you, do not look forward to being unemployed. The only way I can get thru the days now is to tell myself I'll find something better. I still got a 15 year old kid at home so it's not like I can go back to a spaghetti and bean diet. The thing that really upsets me is supposedly this is being done to put more money in my bosses (doctors) pockets. It's not like they are gaining a great deal. Altogether about a dozen people are affected. Good luck to both of us and hang in there. Roy
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my department is being boxed and shipped to another city i have no future. X|
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why no future?
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my department is being boxed and shipped to another city i have no future. X|
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Just think outside the box
Michel Wassink
We must make user friendly software. Where are friendly users?
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Now, come on, I'm pretty sure that you'll find a job like the previous one, soon. Just take it easy. Although there are worse things than queuing burgers... like programming in VB6.
Hope is the negation of reality - Raistlin Majere
jgasm : First of all, my best wishes to find a new (and better job).I lived your experience three years ago, and I understand how you feel. But now I'm even happier, since I actually found a better job, hope you'll find too. Fernando A. Gomez F. : As far as VB6 goes, I almost agree with you, but... have you ever programmed in Cobol? No? You lucky man! After having used Cobol for more than two years X| , VB6 looked like a fresh breeze to me.
Marco Turrini
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jgasm : First of all, my best wishes to find a new (and better job).I lived your experience three years ago, and I understand how you feel. But now I'm even happier, since I actually found a better job, hope you'll find too. Fernando A. Gomez F. : As far as VB6 goes, I almost agree with you, but... have you ever programmed in Cobol? No? You lucky man! After having used Cobol for more than two years X| , VB6 looked like a fresh breeze to me.
Marco Turrini
yeah, nothing like forgetting a single period and getting 20 pages of error messages :doh: Steve
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yeah, nothing like forgetting a single period and getting 20 pages of error messages :doh: Steve
Forgetting was the easy part:laugh:: nothing like trying to locate that :mad:#@%£$&:mad: single period. And what about all those MOVE NEXT:zzz: surrounded by pages of verbose code:zzz: just to go from record x to record x+1? Not to forget that frightening OPEN OUTPUT: zillions of records flushed away in a breathe! And what about chasing T-Rex with a stick:cool:? And lighing a fire with two stones? Ah, the old, good times! I'm so happy they're gone forever... [to be continued, I fear...]
Marco Turrini
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my department is being boxed and shipped to another city i have no future. X|
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Well, sometimes you win, sometimes you learn! Take a look to this amazing book written by "Spencer Johnson", called "Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life". I'm sure it'll give you the strength to deal with this new change in your life.
Mehdi Mousavi - Software Architect [ http://www.mehdi.biz/blog/ ]
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jgasm wrote:
i have no future.
See, you've been successfully brainwashed by the 21st century work ethic. If you don't work for the man, you have no future. fuck the man. Marc
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Forgetting was the easy part:laugh:: nothing like trying to locate that :mad:#@%£$&:mad: single period. And what about all those MOVE NEXT:zzz: surrounded by pages of verbose code:zzz: just to go from record x to record x+1? Not to forget that frightening OPEN OUTPUT: zillions of records flushed away in a breathe! And what about chasing T-Rex with a stick:cool:? And lighing a fire with two stones? Ah, the old, good times! I'm so happy they're gone forever... [to be continued, I fear...]
Marco Turrini
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Phil Harding wrote:
work for the man as a highly paid external consultant, and really shaft 'im
Yeah, isn't that what I said? ;) Marc
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my department is being boxed and shipped to another city i have no future. X|
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my department is being boxed and shipped to another city i have no future. X|
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I love changing jobs. There's nothing like starting all over again, with new people, new projects, new office, new everything. Look on the bright side! Starting over can be very refreshing. :)
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] Without a strive for perfection I would be terribly bored.
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Sorry to hear it. Now you have new opportunity. You can find another j.o.b. (just over broke), become a contractor, or start your own business. Figure out what you want to do and get active.
My Blog A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - -Lazarus Long
J.O.B. (Just Over Broke) Scam alert! (Amway, Quixtar, Alticor - whatever they're calling it now). Tell Dex he can shove it where the sun don't shine. -CB
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Marco Turrini, in a commercial on TV they say something like: "One of the common humanity errors is to believe that old things will never come back!" :) As for you mate, pick the time to update yourself while searching for a new job. Best luck for you!
AlexCode wrote:
"One of the common humanity errors is to believe that old things will never come back!"
That's exactly the reason why I said "[to be continued, I fear...]":((. I hope a T-Rex [b]eats me before I'm ordered to look at a single line of Cobol code X| X| , which usually spans over several lines of text: how could I ever forget that code had to start at column 8 and end at column 72:mad: (perfect for printing code destroying Amazonic rain forest)?
Marco Turrini