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Originally posted by Troll View PostYou need more sockies
Just think. If SY stopped using them, he;'d be on more posts than Zeity by now.What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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I thought this story was going to go a totally different direction, with her offering herself to you and you finding yourself in a sticking situation. Can you edit the story to end that way, it would be better.
As it is, tell her to shut it, HTML5 isn't even finished and it's nothing special anyway. And I don't really know you can be left behind, only left behind in certain areas. If you were a a web-dev by trade then you should be worried, but you just dabble with it on the side so were never expert to begin with or she wouldn't overtake you so quickly. It's only once she learnt a bit that she realised you're not that great at web-dev to begin with.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by suityou01 View PostT
So tonight she calls me (about 6 months after we last spoke) carrying on with an air of superiority. She wants my help on a project, not to do the theming, but to cut some php. Easy enough. Then the conversation took a turn. I felt like I was being interviewed. What projects have you worked on recently, what languages do you feel the most comfortable with etc etc. Not just innocent questions, and you could tell she was unimpressed when I said I hadn't really done that much in the past year and had not looked at HTML 5.
I am now long enough in the tooth to know that new fads come and go, but the ability to program never leaves you. And all those hard fought and won scars on your back are not for nothing. I have not written anything in about 12 months, as I have moved on from coding into other areas, but I am still taking on other programming projects as I can, will and will invoice.
Her tone has left me somewhat gobsmacked. She is obviously going places, and I have just wet the bed again, but I just wondered if anyone on here has coaxed the next generation of programmers only for them to gain expertise and then look at you like you are yesterday's news.
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Or you could just wish her well.
Some of the people I've helped along the way have gone in a different direction to myself and are always willing to spread the knowledge back.
From what you post, you work in slightly different areas, and in her chosen field she does ok.
She thought you had experience in something (which you haven't) and was trying to repay the original favour.
What's the prob?
I get calls each week saying "are you still doing xyz" and if I'm not I say no but I may know a chap who is.
What's the problem? She thought you were doing something that you aren't but at least she thought enough to ask.Comment
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Originally posted by Zippy View PostShe may 'know' some technologies but she's obviously an idiot. Move on.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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but the ability to program never leaves youbloggoth
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In my area most people are grey haired old farts (slowly getting there myself though) and new blood is always required and it makes me happy to see youngsters taking an interest and I'll always do my best to mentor them. They tend to specialise in 1 or 2 areas of the systems whereas I spread myself about a bit but if I have a problem I know that I can go to them to ask for assistance and I'm not ashamed that they've got more knowledge than me and hopefully they'll come to me for knowledge in other areas they don't have.
Currently have a young lad (27 I believe, just out of Uni.)who has just started, sitting next to me in the office. He hasn't worked in this specific area of IT before but the company have sent him on a few training courses already and I've been assisting him and already I can see that he's picking it up well. On the other hand he knows all this new fangled stuff which is not really my area but now enroaches on it so I use him to help me there. All good stuff.“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostIn my area most people are grey haired old farts (slowly getting there myself though) and new blood is always required and it makes me happy to see youngsters taking an interest and I'll always do my best to mentor them. They tend to specialise in 1 or 2 areas of the systems whereas I spread myself about a bit but if I have a problem I know that I can go to them to ask for assistance and I'm not ashamed that they've got more knowledge than me and hopefully they'll come to me for knowledge in other areas they don't have.
Currently have a young lad (27 I believe, just out of Uni.)who has just started, sitting next to me in the office. He hasn't worked in this specific area of IT before but the company have sent him on a few training courses already and I've been assisting him and already I can see that he's picking it up well. On the other hand he knows all this new fangled stuff which is not really my area but now enroaches on it so I use him to help me there. All good stuff.Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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Originally posted by d000hg View Post
Or, she's just young and impatient. The young always think they know better ...
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