Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Dr. What
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Jan 13 2024 10:38:00

-=> Dr. What wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 pF> Office Politics 101. Now, that would be a valuable class!

 DW> As vaulable as Data Structures, FORTRAN and C, that's for sure.

I worked with a group that took kids from community colleges and kids
working out of high school and provided internships with corporate
clients. I had four cohorts of kids working in my client services team
that came from different walks of life and got a crash course in Word,
Excel, collaboration tools and a corporate office primer.

The kids ended up learning email skills, how to follow up, the
importance of deliverables and meeting deadlines, how to dress and so
on.

Out of the 8 interns I had, some ended up getting jobs with the company
they interned at, others were picked up by the managed service company
we used, and others went on to tech and marketing gigs outside of the
company.

One person went from waiting tables to a $65K/year job in product
management in 9 months.

I learned almost as much as they learned - it was valuable as a
50-something people manager to directly manage 20-somethings.




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