Sour Grapes... you had better bloody believe it!
I was coming up to choose my subjects and do the career development bollox just as the .com boom was at it's peak.

Being able to work with computers was presented as the holy grail of employment, while the geeks, although exiled into the back rooms of companies, wrote their own checks and made up the figures needed as they went along. Teachers, parents and random folk you had never met before would announce "their is money in computers".

I learnt everything there was to know about networking PC's (on coaxial, when it was a skill to maintain a network!), taught by my older friends and cousins who were making a mint doing what they would be doing at home anyway. Then out came Megashafts "Windows 95" midst a hail of bells and whistles, simplifying the skilled jobs of thousands of geeks. and opening up the IT world to to any fucking idiot who was able to fill out an exam sheet. Qualifications became the buzzword for getting the same jobs where a genuine interest and actual knowledge would normally suffice.

Most SysAdmin's today believe themselves superior due to them being able to click "next" on a set up wizard and having a certificate to prove it, and workplaces are now flooded with amateur tinkerers who feel pride in assembling their own PC, failing to realise that building one today is akin to putting the different shapes into the right hole on a kids toy.

Woo!

There's money in plumbing!


Don't make me angry, it gets bigger when am angry!
( BulldogUgly Visit my profile to see what's between my legs, Thu 29 Mar 2007, 13:52, Reply)