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Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by zerr »

ilaksh wrote: post #237
zerr wrote: post #166

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Yes, that sounds strange to me - the family of two generations programmers can't afford in-house nursing? I can't imagine putting my parents or grannies in "home" unless I am really poor.

I am pretty sure my siblings may not appreciate my discussing our business in public, but just to be clear. My sister and I have been living in his house for the past six months in order to care for him. It had become increasingly difficult to feed or move him because of his dementia and things like compression fractures in his back. After I was unable to get him out of bed last week we decided we were no longer qual…

I'm sorry. You shouldn't have needed to explain your situation.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by iforgotpassword »

im3w1l wrote: post #362
iforgotpassword wrote: post #262

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> I just thought it might be interesting to people to see what technologies were in use at those times. It definitely is, not just to see what technologies were in use, but what an exemplary career in that field looked like, so thanks for sharing. It's just that the first thing that went through my head was this joke, since it's really something that isn't too far fetched situation wise (see that one longer reply). F…

Why were the IT people unaware of it? Was it "wired in" in an unusual way?

Good question. I can only guess from what else he told about his work that it was simply one of these cases where the younger staff was just not that well versed with the old systems and mostly just managed to maintain them. Most of the stuff that was done in the early days of computing there wasn't formally documented as it was just a bunch of nerds who knew each other very well.* Apparently, when the company got rid of the big printers directly attached to the mainframes they just forgot about that one job, or maybe just removed the print job but not the one that generated it. By the time that happened almost everyone from the old team was already busy with other stuff, much higher up the command chain.

* My uncle was actually a maths teacher, but right when he finished college there was absolutely no demand, so a friend already working there got him on board. He learned cobol while trying to figure things out there, reading books day and night...

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by tezzer »

School-Cotton wrote: post #340
gukov wrote: post #335

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The LinkedIn profile is that photo now.

A LinkedIn profile is not the same thing as a resume. I don't look at someone's LinkedIn profile before interviewing them...

I do. It's a good way to set expectations, see if they've gotten any interesting recommendations from coworkers, and see if we know anyone in common.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by anticensor »

astura wrote: post #181
RLN wrote: post #43

Very striking for me is listing of height, health and birth date. I would never put these on a CV. All irrelevant.

At one time it wasn't illegal to discriminate based on health/disability, so it made sense to advertise yourself as healthy, as you'd take less sick days, etc.

It is not illegal to declare you are advantageous in particular skill.

Re: My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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Post by rdelval »

I went to school at SUNY Binghamton which is right next door to Endicott, NY, founding place of IBM. Super interesting that your father was around there during the town's heyday.

After the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company and IBM packed up and left, the town collapsed on itself and hasn't been able to recover since. It's crazy to think years ago, people migrated from California to upstate NY to work. OP if he ever told you about his time there, I'd love to hear about it.

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Post by sadamznintern »

Latteland wrote: post #363
kilo_bravo_3 wrote: post #360

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>Wow, I wish I was an engineer in that era. 25 years at the same company, 3 languages over 13 years. I work for a competitor to General Dynamics in practically the same field (as close as you can get in 2018) as Mr. Ray Livesay. Counting the acquisition, I've been with the same company for 11 years, having worked my way up from being a technical writer to programmer to systems engineer. When I wanted to transition fr…

Google/Microsoft/amazon/facebook/other big top companies seem to only have people work in group settings, but the problem is they pay a metric shitload of money. I've worked for several of them on this list. Work at one of those for 10 years and you might be fixed for life. I also used to work at Microsoft back when we all had private offices but I was lucky enough to be there when the stock was steadily appreciating…

Amazon doesn’t pay much.

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Post by sadamznintern »

znpy wrote: post #337
adventured wrote: post #287

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Here's the resume of Bill Gates from 1973 (lists height and weight) - https://i.imgur.com/btFE99N.jpg And Paul Allen's - https://i.imgur.com/0pDSVBS.jpg

Bill Gates, first year at harvard, course taken: operating systems structure, database management, compiler construction and computer graphics.

I only took 1 of those in my entire undergrad career...

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Post by sadamznintern »

reachtarunhere wrote: post #239
lev99 wrote: post #182

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If you get every job you ask for maybe you are aiming too low.

That's an interesting argument. I am just starting out as a fresh grad. I applied to three places and got into all three. I did pretty much the same things when trying to land up internships. Maybe, I should try being more ambitious.

Meanwhile I applied to 40-50, did interviews for 20 odd companies, 8 onsites and got only 2 offers.

It doesn’t matter as long as the company you got into was good lol (it wasn’t like that for me)

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Post by aswanson »

kilo_bravo_3 wrote: post #360
phyller wrote: post #325

Wow, I wish I was an engineer in that era. 25 years at the same company, 3 languages over 13 years. And when he needed to learn a new language he actually went to school for it. I just started a new position, I have to learn at least 2 new languages (on my own time) which I need to be proficient in basically immediately. My very first project was, fix something in this new project which uses a new language, you have…

>Wow, I wish I was an engineer in that era. 25 years at the same company, 3 languages over 13 years. I work for a competitor to General Dynamics in practically the same field (as close as you can get in 2018) as Mr. Ray Livesay. Counting the acquisition, I've been with the same company for 11 years, having worked my way up from being a technical writer to programmer to systems engineer. When I wanted to transition fr…

I worked at a competitor to GD for about 7 years. Had a great career trajectory until a managerial fuckup cost the company one third of the revenue and they had to ax 50 percent of the staff. Be careful, those big, stable companies can tend to lull you into thinking things can't go left quickly. They most assuredly can, and do.
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