> I dunno...
The other week I was told on this list that once you get int
> othe commerical world there's no time to learn anything.
Is that what was said, or perhaps was it that in the professional
world (in the States for sure, and perhaps the UK now) you won't be
_given_ time to learn anything, nor are you likely to receive much
support to learn anything - if a company shifts its focus, the pattern
here for 20 years has been to bring in SMEs (subject matter experts)
to replace present employees who have "obsolete" skills and are thusly
laid-off (made redundant).
I cna't remember the exact quote. It was in the trhead abotu Paul Allen
(?) wanting sombody to maintain hs collection of vintage computers and
that the job description mentioned that the skills of compoennt-level
troubleshootign and TTL/ECL circuit design were 'desirable' and that
knowledge of Outlook was 'essential'. I, and others, pointed out that the
former was decidedly non0-trivial (and IMHO essential for repairing any
vintage machies), the latter could be learnt in an afternoon by anyone
who'd ever used an e-mail program. I was then informed that there is no
time to learn new stuff in the commercial world, or something like that.
-tony