Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Joe Wright
Date : Sun Aug 14 2005 09:19 pm

CBFalconer wrote:
> Richard Heathfield wrote:
> 
> ... snip ...
> 
>>With that thought in mind, if I were designing an application form,
>>I would not bother to put an age field on there, or even a DOB
>>field, despite my earlier point about it being a useful indicator.
>>And that's because I wouldn't bother putting a former employer
>>section or a qualification section on the form. Instead, I'd put in
>>an aptitude test.
>>
>>Anyone who rates themselves so highly that they feel insulted by
>>being asked to do an aptitude test... need not apply.
> 
> 
> Wherever such tests appear I usually enjoy them.  But some people
> feel insulted.
> 
> Forty (mumble) years ago I arrived for a job interview at one
> firm.  I was mistaken for somebody else (I was somewhat thinner and
> less gray than now) and the personnel director first put me in a
> room with what amounted to an IQ test.  I considered it great sport
> and dumped the result on her in under the requisite time.  
> 
> After a while she came back being extremely apologetic over having
> put me through this ordeal.
> 
> I took the job, and met my wife there (she died last year).  Now I
> am leaving the area to live near one of my children.  It is not
> easy clearing out a home of 40 years especially when one has been
> devoted to compulsive retention of clutter.
> 
If you must leave, be sure to take the best of the clutter with you. 
That old Z80 machine running CP/M is every bit as good as an old Teddy 
Bear when you need one.

When will you be leaving? Where will you be going? If you can stop 
anywhere near Arlington, VA I'll buy you a beer.

-- 
Joe Wright
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
                     --- Albert Einstein ---

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