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Originally Posted by blackmonsters
Programming is no longer a reliable long term job.
After programming for 10 years, your company changes to a new language and
now you have 0 years experience instead of 10 in that category on your resume.
And then every other company is looking for 2 years experience in that new language
when you get laid off.
Of couse a programmer with 10 years experince can easily do a great job in the
new language; but companies don't hire like that.
I wouldn't advise anyone to major in computer science.
Programming is the only skill that I know of where companies foolishly think the skill can
expire.
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QFT. I was a COBOL programmer, and over 20 years learned loads of other languages, and utilities, etc. Finally I was working at a place that bought AS/400 computers and they decided on a RPG as the programming language instead of COBOL--God knows why because all the programmers knew COBOL and no-one knew RPG. That's when I decided to get out of IT.