Originally posted by rootsnall
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Originally posted by milanbenesanyway, it's all .Net these days, that's the only skill you need,
.Net and you're sorteeeeeeeed
Milan.
That's the future folks. Linux and Java. Whatever you do, don't get into .NET or any M$ noddy technology, especially BizTalk.
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Originally posted by GeorgeGreganI found the opposite in my field of ??. Oz has too many qualified people and a much smaller market so they're more picky. The UK is blagger central which can be quite annoying when you're not a blagger.
I think its possibly that it's easier to blag when you are not on your home turf. I suggest you get blagging ! It's paid off for me in the past but it wasn't much fun at the time reading manuals at midnight and dreading the next day of confusion and sweaty palms. A semi decent coder could blag it in XXXX ( don't want to upset Milan ) pretty quickly but the new fangled stuff is a bit harder as you can't install a lot of the stuff at home to pick up the basics.Comment
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Roots,
if you a straight their 4gl coder then I tend to agree, you will pick it up, but it won't be easy especially understand the transporting mechanism etc in the beginning
but for anything outside straight coding and I mean anything technical or functional then blaggers haven't got a chance and won't get past elementary questions in a telephone interview, and I not trying to put peops off, this is true and I'm a blagger too, but luckily don't need to blag so much these days
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Originally posted by milanbenesRoots,
if you a straight their 4gl coder then I tend to agree, you will pick it up, but it won't be easy especially understand the transporting mechanism etc in the beginning
but for anything outside straight coding and I mean anything technical or functional then blaggers haven't got a chance and won't get past elementary questions in a telephone interview, and I not trying to put peops off, this is true and I'm a blagger too, but luckily don't need to blag so much these days
Milan.
My worst experience was after getting on for a year off and I went in cold on a new release and stared blankly at a screen I didn't have any memory of !!!Comment
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Originally posted by AtW
Ah.
'Nuff said *taps nose*"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...Comment
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Roots,
'Remember in the early days of SAP nobody else had a clue ! ',
As I get older it gets harder to get motivated to fly by the seat of my pants.
I know what you mean about situations where they ask you to do something and you start sweating ! Been there, worst is when they're all stood behind you cos your the expert cos it says so on your cv !
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Originally posted by milanbenesRoots,
'Remember in the early days of SAP nobody else had a clue ! ',
As I get older it gets harder to get motivated to fly by the seat of my pants.
I know what you mean about situations where they ask you to do something and you start sweating ! Been there, worst is when they're all stood behind you cos your the expert cos it says so on your cv !
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nope I'm not with big blue and these days my stuff works, the blagging days are long gone.... until the ££ go out of ERP and we all have to cross-train, sorry cross-blag into the next big demand area :-)
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