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Re: <offtopic>Opinions About typecasting..

• From: david.lyon@p...
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:48:56 -0500

Quoting Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>:

> Tools are careers - at least today.

Very true.

> So I'm having extreme difficulty finding people to work for me
> because they want to be "Oracle" programmers or "SAP" programmers or ...

it's where the money is....

> I'm starting to wander if they even see the projects in terms of
> outcomes or just "I spent x years working with product y doing z".

That sort of stuff is no longer important.

> Even the resumes don't reflect completion, only practice. I worked for
> x years on ... rather than I built this and this and this - or the team
> I worked with completed these projects.
>
> The world has changed ...

Yes, and it's a good thing.

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