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To: Rose in RoseBear

Well, good luck!

I wonder if I'll be in your shoes in X number of years... when there are little kids running around, or not so little ones. Currently I'm loving my job but I won't be a working mom so things will have to change. My experiences of the last week or so are making it really really obvious that I can't afford to miss a major worldview shift, like the one from procedural to OO. I just won't be able to get back in without series retraining. Just keeping up on new languages, that I can manage, but if I let myself get ten years out of date I'll never work again.


5,101 posted on 02/02/2007 10:51:30 AM PST by JenB
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To: JenB

It is not that hard to retrain if you don't think in a box. Many people just can't let old ideas go. The idea that you can't teach a old dog new tricks is garbage. Even with the so called world view shift lots of companies and projects don't bother with OO.


5,102 posted on 02/02/2007 11:01:52 AM PST by TalonDJ
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To: JenB
My experiences of the last week or so are making it really really obvious that I can't afford to miss a major worldview shift, like the one from procedural to OO.

That's what happened to me whilst I was mucking about with tech support --- the world changed, C and Assembler went out of style, and everything went to the web and OOP.

And the world is changing on us yet again, Jen ... I think this Rapid Application Development thing is going places. Ruby on Rails is all the rage here in Austin.

I've been considering taking a Java course at the community college.

5,104 posted on 02/02/2007 11:20:37 AM PST by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... http://www.rbent.com/HHLCSGetWellDonations.htm...])
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