To your point about unqualified devs Dave :- "...Everytime I see a developer use multi-threading I think to myself, thank you for keeping future consultancy billables alive" - Anonymous
The more chaos the web devs breed the more the seasoned devs can pick up the win falls from that. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:52 AM, David Connors <da...@connors.com> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 at 10:13 Mark Hurd <markeh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This is getting an off-topic post even more general, but this thread >> also suggests to me part of why we're a hard industry to get proper >> engineering-level standards applied. >> > > I had a great chat about this with one of our engineers last week as we > were discussing what we would likely be doing as careers if there was no > such thing as IT. > > What we worked out through discussion was that IT is, unlike most > industries, completely unregulated. Anyone can call themselves a software > engineer and, if you're competent and have a good reputation, you can do > very well. > > We never get hand outs from the government but then again we set our own > rules of engagement and our fee structures are dictated by the market. > > >> Not sure what the solution is, of course. >> > > I used to have a bug up my arse about how unregulated IT is any how many > unqualified / incompetent people there are in the industry. I've gotten > over that and now appreciate people who make ummaintainable messes of > things as great providers of market differentiation for us. :) > > David. > > -- > David Connors > da...@connors.com | @davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363 >
