Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Thu Feb 14 02:09:27 CST 2013
Hi Hans -- FYI: I'm working for the Western European and American and worldwide custom software development markets for almost twenty years now: Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, UK, Ireland, US, Canada... I have learned, I have had and I have a working experience with many technologies during that period and before starting from assemblers, C/C++, Pascal, ... SQL, .. and ending by VBA, C# etc.. In parallel to my everyday custom applications development work I'm currently taking Pluralsight courses to get the new knowledge and skills in some modern technologies applicable on the mainstream desktop, web and mobile platforms... So your note on your "judging by your western european and north american experience" sounds strange here - do you assume that your experience differs that much from experience of a modern (application) software developer living anywhere in this "small world"? If yes - please open your mind and eyes - that difference can be neglected - I mean that, I know that. When I'm talking about delegating the work to specialists I mean to not "give-up forever" the own knowledge acquiring and the working experience mastering/development in the new technologies but to do the *current* job/task the most effective and economically affordable way both in short- and in long-run. Please see the difference. Thank you. -- Shamil Среда, 13 февраля 2013, 23:25 -08:00 от Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>: > >Hi Shamil, > >The irony is that in order to have good working experience, you need to have working experience. And if the job is being delegated to a "specialist" all the time, then no one else ever gets any actual experience to qualify as "good working experience". > >To be honest, I know what it feels like to have invested so much time in a particular language/technology/etc that you feel completely lost when you touch anything new, but you just have to stick with it. It gets easier and you get to experience that feeling of your horizon broadening in your mind. > >Also, to assume that a specialist is better, just because they can do something faster, I think this is wrong minded. Specialists, like all professionals who do the same thing for a long time, can also be dangerous. The can develop bad habits and practices because they are so involved in their little area and insulate themselves from other ideas. They become the person who has a hammer and sees everything as a nail. Specialists can enter a project and decide to throw away hard work already done just because it didn't fit with their style or preferred tools. Specialists can be very inflexible and a liability to your project as well. > >Anyways, in my recent experience with the job market, it doesn't seem to fit your belief, but I'm judging it by my western european and north american experience. > >- Hans > ><<< skipped >>>