Susan Harkins
ssharkins at bellsouth.net
Wed Sep 28 11:04:42 CDT 2005
I am not saying that .net isn't a PITA, it definitely is. There is a LOT to learn and a LOT of stuff to discover and figure out, but man it is in a completely different league from anything I have ever seen before. The guys making 800s on their SATs are designing stuff that I can use to make me look like I scored 700s on mine. ;-) I think that is pretty darned awesome. ===========Awesome yes, but change always displaces people. In the late 80's through the 90's, applications development was something that the smarter than ordinary, but not a rocket scientist person could take up, sometimes even teach themselves, and cut out a nice little niche for themselves -- with a little ingenuity and ambition, a regular person could make a decent living. That's getting harder and harder. It isn't just .NET that's changing things -- it's not learning one difficult, but really powerful language -- it's the expectations, no it's the demand, that we be competent in several different areas. It isn't enough to know a lot about something anymore, you must know a lot about several technologies now. It's becoming too much for some people -- people like me. I don't want to work that hard for so little -- just to keep up. If I can't get ahead, I'm in the wrong place. I will never get ahead with .NET/Web/etc. -- I will never be proficient enough. Susan H.