Matthew Petach <mpet...@netflight.com> wrote: > On a slightly different note, however--while it's good to > have an appreciation of the past and how we got here, > I think it's wise to also recognize we as an industry > have some challenges bringing new blood in--and > treating it too much like a sacred priesthood with > cabalistic knowledge and initiation rites isn't going > to help us bring new engineers into the field to > take over for us crusty old farts when our eyes > give out and we can't type into our 9600 baud > serial consoles anymore. > > Matt > CCOF #1999322002 [0]
I've seen very little attention paid to junior talent in the last few years, and know a few people who would have been talented engineers that never got a chance to show it. They moved into other industries because of the lack of junior roles. I know very few people in network engineering that are under thirty, and not that many under thirty five. On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Matthew Petach <mpet...@netflight.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > [...] > > > > And this... is NANOG! > > Needs more ellipses and capitalization...more like > > > This...IS...NANOG!!! > > building up to a nice crescendo roar as you kick the > hapless interviewee backwards down the deep, dark well > > > On a slightly different note, however--while it's good to > have an appreciation of the past and how we got here, > I think it's wise to also recognize we as an industry > have some challenges bringing new blood in--and > treating it too much like a sacred priesthood with > cabalistic knowledge and initiation rites isn't going > to help us bring new engineers into the field to > take over for us crusty old farts when our eyes > give out and we can't type into our 9600 baud > serial consoles anymore. > > Matt > CCOF #1999322002 [0] > > > > > [0] Certified Crufty Old Fart >