[Blackpool] Udemy discussion... continued?

[Arthur Garlick]

Ha ha, well unintentionally I seem to do a good sideline in spam...

I will have to ask you what you do or want to do when I see you next. 

I agree with your thought of a bell curve. I relate it more to backing horses.  Maybe you'd go for steady odds or maybe you'd go for longer odds that might give a better return. Depends on your outlook and circumstance. Either way an element of luck that is out of your control will affect the out come. All I say is as long as you've made some attempt at a rational choice and looked at the form of the skill sets you are looking at.  Picking a horse or skill set based on you like the colour or with a pin means you deserve to loose your shirt. 

I am quite opinionated about this because of  experience of fresh from uni guys and interns. I get the impression that the idea that it's an employment market has been lost. 

Living near the coast geographically cuts out 180 degrees of employment opportunities, sad but true! 

Regards

Arthur



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> On 9 Jan 2015, at 20:54, James Page <jmsp.1983 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> For whatever reason, the mailing list is rejecting any further replies to
> that discussion as spam.
> 
> I'll see if pasting my original response to Arthur's last reply gets around
> it...
> 
> 
> Not especially, or at least, not primarily. It's partly so I can maintain
> my VPS, partly so I can do enough to work around some dev stuff (when it
> gets to that point, e.g. Ruby) and partly so I can appreciate technical
> roles and requirements if I'm ever in a position where that would be
> helpful.
> 
> Whatever happens for me career-wise, I'm doubtful it's going to be in an FY
> postcode.
> 
> On the ranking front, would it perhaps follow a bell curve? I can well
> imagine that the most obscure stuff, whilst not in mass demand, can still
> have a demand and thus a bigger premium attached to it - for those
> situations which absolutely demand it (e.g. COBOL, Fortran etc?).
> 
> As for me, I'm less IT-orientated, despite my interest in tech.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> James
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