Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Jon Butler wrote: > It's not libel if it's true...although they may know where you live ;¬)) > > But remember that, regardless of truth (per Pilate: "What is truth?"; John 18:38) you can still get sued and convicted for libel if the has good enough lawyers and enough money. -- "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion Maranatha! <>< John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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I live in Austin but I'm not going to attend SXSW. Way too many people. Are mainframe jobs open around here or are companies just recruiting? I haven't heard of any sysprog job open lately but I'm always looking. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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> On Mar 12, 2017, at 9:57 AM, scott Ford wrote: > > Ed. > > I am nost surprised, it seems critical thinking has disappeared or is > hiding. > It's like the cycle of a company centralizing IT resources and > de-centralizing..all at the whim of some mangler. > I feel you have to have a long range game plan for company, products, etc. > > Scott This company is unique and the “owners” are the brokerage houses. i.e. a sale costs x many cents and we got the x many cents, Anytime we had to increase the prices the brokerage houses screamed bloody murder. For instance a new CPU for us took profits away from the buys/sellers. We always had to beg money out of them for anything. When the brokers heard that they could make more money if the DC was in Texas they mandated the move. I think what bit them in the end was the automated sell/buy orders. At one time we were doing 200,000 contracts a day and with computerized trading it broke 2,000,000 a day. Ed ps: The numbers I used were rough numbers as its been 20+ years and my memories is going. > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 1:23 AM Edward Gould > wrote: > >>> On Mar 11, 2017, at 8:17 AM, scott Ford wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Amen Jack, everyone doesn't get that mainframe sysprogs and developers >> >>> really aren't a dime a dozen. >> >>> >> >>> My dad used to say "buy cheap get cheap", see this everyday.. >> >>> >> >>> Scott >> >> >> >> Scott: >> >> A place I used to work moved their computers down to TEXAS as its was >> supposed to save them money. >> >> It didn’t. >> >> Ed >> >> >> >> -- >> >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> -- > Scott Ford > IDMWORKS > z/OS Development > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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Ed. I am nost surprised, it seems critical thinking has disappeared or is hiding. It's like the cycle of a company centralizing IT resources and de-centralizing..all at the whim of some mangler. I feel you have to have a long range game plan for company, products, etc. Scott On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 1:23 AM Edward Gould wrote: > > On Mar 11, 2017, at 8:17 AM, scott Ford wrote: > > > > > > Amen Jack, everyone doesn't get that mainframe sysprogs and developers > > > really aren't a dime a dozen. > > > > > > My dad used to say "buy cheap get cheap", see this everyday.. > > > > > > Scott > > > > Scott: > > A place I used to work moved their computers down to TEXAS as its was > supposed to save them money. > > It didn’t. > > Ed > > > > -- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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> On Mar 11, 2017, at 8:17 AM, scott Ford wrote: > > Amen Jack, everyone doesn't get that mainframe sysprogs and developers > really aren't a dime a dozen. > > My dad used to say "buy cheap get cheap", see this everyday.. > > Scott Scott: A place I used to work moved their computers down to TEXAS as its was supposed to save them money. It didn’t. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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My fat finger -- Sorry -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 7:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Steve Beaver wrote: > Also H1B visas are all on a slow path. There is no way to pay a fee > to expedite a VISA after April 3, 2017 > Wow, that's like 90 years in the future! Oh, you typo'd 2017. -- "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion Maranatha! <>< John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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Steve Beaver wrote: W@H home means you are up at 6 working at 0630, lunch in in the kitchen, and in the middle of the night you wake up To fix code you wrote or fix the system. If anyone is abused it’s the guy that works from home because they can find you anytime and you are not stuck in traffic or on a Bus going home with no access for 90 minutes or so. Once again you describe my professional life ;) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Steve Beaver wrote: > Also H1B visas are all on a slow path. There is no way to pay a fee to > expedite a VISA after April 3, 2107 > Wow, that's like 90 years in the future! Oh, you typo'd 2017. -- "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion Maranatha! <>< John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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Guess if you want more yield, plant more seeds! Think the US has slipped to 14th in education. Seems obvious we need more professors, more scholarships, better labs, better research facilities. Seems like would be a good task force for government and industry to address these critical needs. Oh don't forget to Spring Forward tonight in the US. In a message dated 3/11/2017 9:11:13 A.M. Central Standard Time, john.archie.mck...@gmail.com writes: People in the U.S., unlike unfortunates in other countries, are not really willing to be slaves. I have some stories about a well known vendor, from a friend, but I can't repeat them due to fear of a libel lawsuit. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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W@H home means you are up at 6 working at 0630, lunch in in the kitchen, and in the middle of the night you wake up To fix code you wrote or fix the system. If anyone is abused it’s the guy that works from home because they can find you anytime and you are not stuck in traffic or on a Bus going home with no access for 90 minutes or so. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jack J. Woehr Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 5:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > Interesting you say that you have seen W@H abused. I have not seen that at > all here; quite the contrary -- the employer gets a great deal more of our > development time than we're actually bound to do, just because it is so > productive a way to work and so easy to do "just one more round of tests, > I've almost got it . . .". You describe my professional life ... -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Interesting you say that you have seen W@H abused. I have not seen that at all here; quite the contrary -- the employer gets a great deal more of our development time than we're actually bound to do, just because it is so productive a way to work and so easy to do "just one more round of tests, I've almost got it . . .". You describe my professional life ... -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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Also H1B visas are all on a slow path. There is no way to pay a fee to expedite a VISA after April 3, 2107 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 4:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin The other thing in the same vein as Jack is talking about what said when I started this chain. With so few of us, stop accepting the $60/HR and push to $110/HR as if you were a LLC and charge for travel and living expenses Also as most of you know your $60 converts to $150 because a recruiter is in place and wants $10 out of what you are getting paid -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jack J. Woehr Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 11:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin Doug Fuerst wrote: > If I take these rates, I'll make less now than I did 25 years ago. > There are fewer and fewer of us, and yet they demand more and more for less > and less. Time to form a consulting LLC and work from home via VPN at high rates. They've marked down those who want "employment" as suckers. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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The other thing in the same vein as Jack is talking about what said when I started this chain. With so few of us, stop accepting the $60/HR and push to $110/HR as if you were a LLC and charge for travel and living expenses Also as most of you know your $60 converts to $150 because a recruiter is in place and wants $10 out of what you are getting paid -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jack J. Woehr Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 11:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin Doug Fuerst wrote: > If I take these rates, I'll make less now than I did 25 years ago. > There are fewer and fewer of us, and yet they demand more and more for less > and less. Time to form a consulting LLC and work from home via VPN at high rates. They've marked down those who want "employment" as suckers. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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I have no doubt most of you in the US have been getting e-mail for jobs in Nebraska. If memory serves me correctly they have been pushing the manta $60/HR but you have to be on-site. Well it looks like the State of Nebraska has now looking for people, this time remote. However I am guessing you will have to travel to Nebraska for 1 week of meet and greet an pick up a laptop but they will expect the remote worker to pay the bills for the week. Any bets? Steve -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 3:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin Interesting you say that you have seen W@H abused. I have not seen that at all here; quite the contrary -- the employer gets a great deal more of our development time than we're actually bound to do, just because it is so productive a way to work and so easy to do "just one more round of tests, I've almost got it . . .". I will say that there are still managers (even not so senior ones) who are so afraid of slacking that they limit W@H opportunities even for programmers. I think it depends on your own personal attitude - if you think you would slack at home (or do slack) then you think everyone else will do it too. For myself, I am so grateful for the opportunity for W@H that I make *darn* sure not to screw it up for me or for anyone else on my team. But to play devil's advocate a little, I imagine that managers who are dealing with really remote workers in other countries and cultures and time zones complicates the issue too. To Mike B: I thought that the "no more work at home for anyone" was Yahoo, wasn't it? ISTR the IBM mandate was for marketing department types, not programmers, but I could be wrong about that (memory is a slippery thing). Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of scott Ford Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 1:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin I have worked remote since 2006. You have to have a company / mgmt that is willing to do it. I have since it abused also.. Scott On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:17 PM Mike Beer wrote: > IBM is currently moving the people back to the office. > > No more remote work. > > Mike -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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Interesting you say that you have seen W@H abused. I have not seen that at all here; quite the contrary -- the employer gets a great deal more of our development time than we're actually bound to do, just because it is so productive a way to work and so easy to do "just one more round of tests, I've almost got it . . .". I will say that there are still managers (even not so senior ones) who are so afraid of slacking that they limit W@H opportunities even for programmers. I think it depends on your own personal attitude - if you think you would slack at home (or do slack) then you think everyone else will do it too. For myself, I am so grateful for the opportunity for W@H that I make *darn* sure not to screw it up for me or for anyone else on my team. But to play devil's advocate a little, I imagine that managers who are dealing with really remote workers in other countries and cultures and time zones complicates the issue too. To Mike B: I thought that the "no more work at home for anyone" was Yahoo, wasn't it? ISTR the IBM mandate was for marketing department types, not programmers, but I could be wrong about that (memory is a slippery thing). Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of scott Ford Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 1:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin I have worked remote since 2006. You have to have a company / mgmt that is willing to do it. I have since it abused also.. Scott On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:17 PM Mike Beer wrote: > IBM is currently moving the people back to the office. > > No more remote work. > > Mike -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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I have worked remote since 2006. You have to have a company / mgmt that is willing to do it. I have since it abused also.. Scott On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:17 PM Mike Beer wrote: > IBM is currently moving the people back to the office. > > No more remote work. > > > > Mike > > > > -- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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IBM is currently moving the people back to the office. No more remote work. Mike -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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Dan Skomsky wrote: I'd take a look at it. Maybe examine a program or two and see if it looks interesting. Let ya know if it really happens. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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I'd take a look at it. Maybe examine a program or two and see if it looks interesting. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jack J. Woehr Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 10:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin scott Ford wrote: > Amen Jack, everyone doesn't get that mainframe sysprogs and developers > really aren't a dime a dozen. Somebody asked me the other day about converting 1000 programs from Assembler to Cobol. If that is jumping off (not sure of the deal) is anyone interested? Probably can work from home. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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scott Ford wrote: Amen Jack, everyone doesn't get that mainframe sysprogs and developers really aren't a dime a dozen. Somebody asked me the other day about converting 1000 programs from Assembler to Cobol. If that is jumping off (not sure of the deal) is anyone interested? Probably can work from home. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 8:58 AM, wjanu...@yahoo.com < 008d52e04f2e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > These companies need to get out of the 'stone age'. > > Sound more like "We can't get qualified American citizens for our needs. Therefore we need to have more H1B visas!" I.e. People in the U.S., unlike unfortunates in other countries, are not really willing to be slaves. I have some stories about a well known vendor, from a friend, but I can't repeat them due to fear of a libel lawsuit. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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These companies need to get out of the 'stone age'. Sent from my mobile phone -- Original message-- From: Doug Fuerst Date: Sat, Mar 11, 2017 9:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU; Subject:Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin I'm just trying to wait them out. If no one takes these "significant rate" "opportunities", and refuse to move for 3 month to 12 month non-guaranteed assignments, maybe they'll figure out remote is the way to go. Doug Fuerst d...@bkassociates.net -- Original Message -- From: "scott Ford" To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 11-Mar-17 9:17:12 AM Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin >Amen Jack, everyone doesn't get that mainframe sysprogs and developers >really aren't a dime a dozen. > >My dad used to say "buy cheap get cheap", see this everyday.. > >Scott > > >On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:19 AM Jack J. Woehr wrote: > >> Doug Fuerst wrote: >> >> > If I take these rates, I'll make less now than I did 25 years ago. >>There >> are fewer and fewer of us, and yet they >> >> > demand more and more for less and less. >> >> >> >> Time to form a consulting LLC and work from home via VPN at high >>rates. >> They've marked down those who want "employment" >> >> as suckers. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way >>of >> >> www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the >> universe >> >> www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - >> Carl Sagan >> >> >> >> >>-- >> >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO >>IBM-MAIN >> >> -- >Scott Ford >IDMWORKS >z/OS Development > >-- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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I'm just trying to wait them out. If no one takes these "significant rate" "opportunities", and refuse to move for 3 month to 12 month non-guaranteed assignments, maybe they'll figure out remote is the way to go. Doug Fuerst d...@bkassociates.net -- Original Message -- From: "scott Ford" To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 11-Mar-17 9:17:12 AM Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin Amen Jack, everyone doesn't get that mainframe sysprogs and developers really aren't a dime a dozen. My dad used to say "buy cheap get cheap", see this everyday.. Scott On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:19 AM Jack J. Woehr wrote: Doug Fuerst wrote: > If I take these rates, I'll make less now than I did 25 years ago. There are fewer and fewer of us, and yet they > demand more and more for less and less. Time to form a consulting LLC and work from home via VPN at high rates. They've marked down those who want "employment" as suckers. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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Amen Jack, everyone doesn't get that mainframe sysprogs and developers really aren't a dime a dozen. My dad used to say "buy cheap get cheap", see this everyday.. Scott On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:19 AM Jack J. Woehr wrote: > Doug Fuerst wrote: > > > If I take these rates, I'll make less now than I did 25 years ago. There > are fewer and fewer of us, and yet they > > > demand more and more for less and less. > > > > Time to form a consulting LLC and work from home via VPN at high rates. > They've marked down those who want "employment" > > as suckers. > > > > -- > > Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of > > www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the > universe > > www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - > Carl Sagan > > > > -- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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Doug Fuerst wrote: If I take these rates, I'll make less now than I did 25 years ago. There are fewer and fewer of us, and yet they demand more and more for less and less. Time to form a consulting LLC and work from home via VPN at high rates. They've marked down those who want "employment" as suckers. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin
They are in general offering poor rates and demand relocation for no real guaranteed durations. How did it come to this? If I take these rates, I'll make less now than I did 25 years ago. There are fewer and fewer of us, and yet they demand more and more for less and less. Doug Fuerst d...@bkassociates.net -- Original Message -- From: "Steve Beaver" To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 10-Mar-17 5:57:02 PM Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin If you live there Chris, but you're in NY. Most of the mainframe folks do not live in the Austin area -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Skomsky Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin But, that's a good thing for us old time mainframers already living in Austin isn't it? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin On Friday, March 10, 2017, 3:42 PM, Blaicher, Christopher Y. wrote: Growing 6000 people per month. That is why I left Austin. Traffic and HEAT. You can hit 90 any day of the year, and most days from April thru October it will be 90 to 100+. I now live in a little town of 1000 near Lake Placid, NY. And, no, there are no alligators in Lake Placid. Chris Blaicher Technical Architect Mainframe Development Syncsort Incorporated 2 Blue Hill Plaza #1563, Pearl River, NY 10965 P: 201-930-8234 | M: 512-627-3803 E: cblaic...@syncsort.com www.syncsort.com CONNECTING BIG IRON TO BIG DATA -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Mainframe JOBS in Austin No doubt many of you have been or will be contacted for a gigs in Austin. Since I just left a job there here are some number to help you. Austin in growing 6,000 per month To Find a place other than a hotel you will have to 60 miles out and have a 90 minute commute each way I would suggest you add at least $40/HR just to cover things if you decide to drive to and from Austin like I did Add an addition $20/HR to cover weekly airfare and a rent a car. We all like what we do, but no one wants to go broke doing the job Steve -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ATTENTION: - The information contained in this message (including any files transmitted with this message) may contain proprietary, trade secret or other confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any pricing information contained in this message or in any files transmitted with this message is always confidential and cannot be shared with any third parties without prior written approval from Syncsort. This message is intended to be read only by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed or by their designee. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are on notice that any use, disclosure, copying or distribution of this message, in any form, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and/or Syncsort and destroy all copies of this message in your possession, custody or control. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin
You can't ever get near Zilker park. Everyone is walking or in pedicabs Steve -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Skomsky Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin SXSW (South by Southwest) starts tomorrow. I'm sure there will be plenty of young ladies downtown who will 'take too much off'. The temperature is 81 right now and the lawn needs to be cut over the weekend. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Blaicher, Christopher Y. Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin I was working from home, so traffic wasn't the biggest thing. The heat was. I can put another log on the fire up here, but they arrest you if you take too much off down there. Chris Blaicher Technical Architect Mainframe Development Syncsort Incorporated 2 Blue Hill Plaza #1563, Pearl River, NY 10965 P: 201-930-8234 | M: 512-627-3803 E: cblaic...@syncsort.com www.syncsort.com CONNECTING BIG IRON TO BIG DATA -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Skomsky Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 4:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin But, that's a good thing for us old time mainframers already living in Austin isn't it? ATTENTION: - The information contained in this message (including any files transmitted with this message) may contain proprietary, trade secret or other confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any pricing information contained in this message or in any files transmitted with this message is always confidential and cannot be shared with any third parties without prior written approval from Syncsort. This message is intended to be read only by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed or by their designee. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are on notice that any use, disclosure, copying or distribution of this message, in any form, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and/or Syncsort and destroy all copies of this message in your possession, custody or control. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin
If you live there Chris, but you're in NY. Most of the mainframe folks do not live in the Austin area -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Skomsky Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin But, that's a good thing for us old time mainframers already living in Austin isn't it? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin On Friday, March 10, 2017, 3:42 PM, Blaicher, Christopher Y. wrote: Growing 6000 people per month. That is why I left Austin. Traffic and HEAT. You can hit 90 any day of the year, and most days from April thru October it will be 90 to 100+. I now live in a little town of 1000 near Lake Placid, NY. And, no, there are no alligators in Lake Placid. Chris Blaicher Technical Architect Mainframe Development Syncsort Incorporated 2 Blue Hill Plaza #1563, Pearl River, NY 10965 P: 201-930-8234 | M: 512-627-3803 E: cblaic...@syncsort.com www.syncsort.com CONNECTING BIG IRON TO BIG DATA -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Mainframe JOBS in Austin No doubt many of you have been or will be contacted for a gigs in Austin. Since I just left a job there here are some number to help you. Austin in growing 6,000 per month To Find a place other than a hotel you will have to 60 miles out and have a 90 minute commute each way I would suggest you add at least $40/HR just to cover things if you decide to drive to and from Austin like I did Add an addition $20/HR to cover weekly airfare and a rent a car. We all like what we do, but no one wants to go broke doing the job Steve -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ATTENTION: - The information contained in this message (including any files transmitted with this message) may contain proprietary, trade secret or other confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any pricing information contained in this message or in any files transmitted with this message is always confidential and cannot be shared with any third parties without prior written approval from Syncsort. This message is intended to be read only by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed or by their designee. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are on notice that any use, disclosure, copying or distribution of this message, in any form, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and/or Syncsort and destroy all copies of this message in your possession, custody or control. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin
SXSW (South by Southwest) starts tomorrow. I'm sure there will be plenty of young ladies downtown who will 'take too much off'. The temperature is 81 right now and the lawn needs to be cut over the weekend. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Blaicher, Christopher Y. Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin I was working from home, so traffic wasn't the biggest thing. The heat was. I can put another log on the fire up here, but they arrest you if you take too much off down there. Chris Blaicher Technical Architect Mainframe Development Syncsort Incorporated 2 Blue Hill Plaza #1563, Pearl River, NY 10965 P: 201-930-8234 | M: 512-627-3803 E: cblaic...@syncsort.com www.syncsort.com CONNECTING BIG IRON TO BIG DATA -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Skomsky Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 4:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin But, that's a good thing for us old time mainframers already living in Austin isn't it? ATTENTION: - The information contained in this message (including any files transmitted with this message) may contain proprietary, trade secret or other confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any pricing information contained in this message or in any files transmitted with this message is always confidential and cannot be shared with any third parties without prior written approval from Syncsort. This message is intended to be read only by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed or by their designee. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are on notice that any use, disclosure, copying or distribution of this message, in any form, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and/or Syncsort and destroy all copies of this message in your possession, custody or control. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin
I was working from home, so traffic wasn't the biggest thing. The heat was. I can put another log on the fire up here, but they arrest you if you take too much off down there. Chris Blaicher Technical Architect Mainframe Development Syncsort Incorporated 2 Blue Hill Plaza #1563, Pearl River, NY 10965 P: 201-930-8234 | M: 512-627-3803 E: cblaic...@syncsort.com www.syncsort.com CONNECTING BIG IRON TO BIG DATA -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Skomsky Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 4:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin But, that's a good thing for us old time mainframers already living in Austin isn't it? ATTENTION: - The information contained in this message (including any files transmitted with this message) may contain proprietary, trade secret or other confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any pricing information contained in this message or in any files transmitted with this message is always confidential and cannot be shared with any third parties without prior written approval from Syncsort. This message is intended to be read only by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed or by their designee. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are on notice that any use, disclosure, copying or distribution of this message, in any form, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and/or Syncsort and destroy all copies of this message in your possession, custody or control. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin
But, that's a good thing for us old time mainframers already living in Austin isn't it? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin On Friday, March 10, 2017, 3:42 PM, Blaicher, Christopher Y. wrote: Growing 6000 people per month. That is why I left Austin. Traffic and HEAT. You can hit 90 any day of the year, and most days from April thru October it will be 90 to 100+. I now live in a little town of 1000 near Lake Placid, NY. And, no, there are no alligators in Lake Placid. Chris Blaicher Technical Architect Mainframe Development Syncsort Incorporated 2 Blue Hill Plaza #1563, Pearl River, NY 10965 P: 201-930-8234 | M: 512-627-3803 E: cblaic...@syncsort.com www.syncsort.com CONNECTING BIG IRON TO BIG DATA -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Mainframe JOBS in Austin No doubt many of you have been or will be contacted for a gigs in Austin. Since I just left a job there here are some number to help you. Austin in growing 6,000 per month To Find a place other than a hotel you will have to 60 miles out and have a 90 minute commute each way I would suggest you add at least $40/HR just to cover things if you decide to drive to and from Austin like I did Add an addition $20/HR to cover weekly airfare and a rent a car. We all like what we do, but no one wants to go broke doing the job Steve -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ATTENTION: - The information contained in this message (including any files transmitted with this message) may contain proprietary, trade secret or other confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any pricing information contained in this message or in any files transmitted with this message is always confidential and cannot be shared with any third parties without prior written approval from Syncsort. This message is intended to be read only by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed or by their designee. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are on notice that any use, disclosure, copying or distribution of this message, in any form, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and/or Syncsort and destroy all copies of this message in your possession, custody or control. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin
SUPERCROC? Didn't they make a movie about that? ISTR it was called "LAKE PLACID" Growing 6000 people per month. That is why I left Austin. Traffic and HEAT. You can hit 90 any day of the year, and most days from April thru October it will be 90 to 100+. I now live in a little town of 1000 near Lake Placid, NY. And, no, there are no alligators in Lake Placid. Chris Blaicher Technical Architect Mainframe Development Syncsort Incorporated 2 Blue Hill Plaza #1563, Pearl River, NY 10965 ::DISCLAIMER:: The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin
blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } Stayed at Mirror Lake Inn more than once. Beautiful area. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, March 10, 2017, 3:42 PM, Blaicher, Christopher Y. wrote: Growing 6000 people per month. That is why I left Austin. Traffic and HEAT. You can hit 90 any day of the year, and most days from April thru October it will be 90 to 100+. I now live in a little town of 1000 near Lake Placid, NY. And, no, there are no alligators in Lake Placid. Chris Blaicher Technical Architect Mainframe Development Syncsort Incorporated 2 Blue Hill Plaza #1563, Pearl River, NY 10965 P: 201-930-8234 | M: 512-627-3803 E: cblaic...@syncsort.com www.syncsort.com CONNECTING BIG IRON TO BIG DATA -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Mainframe JOBS in Austin No doubt many of you have been or will be contacted for a gigs in Austin. Since I just left a job there here are some number to help you. Austin in growing 6,000 per month To Find a place other than a hotel you will have to 60 miles out and have a 90 minute commute each way I would suggest you add at least $40/HR just to cover things if you decide to drive to and from Austin like I did Add an addition $20/HR to cover weekly airfare and a rent a car. We all like what we do, but no one wants to go broke doing the job Steve -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ATTENTION: - The information contained in this message (including any files transmitted with this message) may contain proprietary, trade secret or other confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any pricing information contained in this message or in any files transmitted with this message is always confidential and cannot be shared with any third parties without prior written approval from Syncsort. This message is intended to be read only by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed or by their designee. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are on notice that any use, disclosure, copying or distribution of this message, in any form, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and/or Syncsort and destroy all copies of this message in your possession, custody or control. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe JOBS in Austin
Growing 6000 people per month. That is why I left Austin. Traffic and HEAT. You can hit 90 any day of the year, and most days from April thru October it will be 90 to 100+. I now live in a little town of 1000 near Lake Placid, NY. And, no, there are no alligators in Lake Placid. Chris Blaicher Technical Architect Mainframe Development Syncsort Incorporated 2 Blue Hill Plaza #1563, Pearl River, NY 10965 P: 201-930-8234 | M: 512-627-3803 E: cblaic...@syncsort.com www.syncsort.com CONNECTING BIG IRON TO BIG DATA -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 3:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Mainframe JOBS in Austin No doubt many of you have been or will be contacted for a gigs in Austin. Since I just left a job there here are some number to help you. Austin in growing 6,000 per month To Find a place other than a hotel you will have to 60 miles out and have a 90 minute commute each way I would suggest you add at least $40/HR just to cover things if you decide to drive to and from Austin like I did Add an addition $20/HR to cover weekly airfare and a rent a car. We all like what we do, but no one wants to go broke doing the job Steve -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ATTENTION: - The information contained in this message (including any files transmitted with this message) may contain proprietary, trade secret or other confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any pricing information contained in this message or in any files transmitted with this message is always confidential and cannot be shared with any third parties without prior written approval from Syncsort. This message is intended to be read only by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed or by their designee. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are on notice that any use, disclosure, copying or distribution of this message, in any form, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and/or Syncsort and destroy all copies of this message in your possession, custody or control. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe jobs
Clark Morris wrote, in part: >Given the slow and steady attrition of z series shops and movement to >the cloud, I do not believe it. Are the salaries for mainframe >technical people increasing? Are there mass recruitments for COBOL >programmers or increased salaries and contract rates? Exactly. "No." BTW, "zSeries" (no space) and "iSeries" (no space) are both long dead-12 years now. They are, respectively, "z Systems" and "IBM i" nowadays. "Who cares"? Well, I submit that it matters in the same sense that you aren't running a Pentium or an 80386 in your laptop today: they're descendants, but hardly the same thing any more. .phsiii (feeling pedantic today) (yeah, yeah, "Today?!?") -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe jobs
Clark Morris wrote: Are there mass recruitments for COBOL programmers or increased salaries and contract rates? There are shops that can't escape z and their staff are all retiring as you did and those shops are now at the mercy of external IT support offerings who are hiring system programmers. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Mainframe jobs
[Default] On 6 Feb 2017 11:53:05 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main li...@akphs.com (Phil Smith III) wrote: >Network World: > >By some estimates there will be more than 84,000 open positions in this >field by 2020. > > > >http://www.networkworld.com/article/3161857/hardware/as-baby-boomers-retire- >the-shortage-of-mainframe-professionals-grows-more-acute.html > Given the slow and steady attrition of z series shops and movement to the cloud, I do not believe it. Are the salaries for mainframe technical people increasing? Are there mass recruitments for COBOL programmers or increased salaries and contract rates? I am grateful to have been able to retire when I did. I doubt the estimates given on the number of lines of COBOL source for programs that are still actively in production given the number of systems that have been replaced by packages such as SAP. What is the attendance at SHARE these days? I doubt it is as high as when I was participating in it. Guide has been gone since 1999. I doubt many of the newer ISV packages are written in COBOL. There isn't the same small system support for the 360 architecture there used to be and I doubt many organizations upgrade to z from the IBM i series. If any organization starts out on any system that is ASCII/ISO oriented, I don't see that organization going through the pain to get to z/OS and conversion to EBCDIC. Unisys is selling Intel based servers running either OS2200 or MCP, with at least the OS2200 based systems running with emulated code through firmware. I doubt either are being sold to new customers. Given the various Windows, Linux and Unix offerings I doubt there is much of a growth market for z series or for any other mainframe architecture. Incidentally, how secure is TPF? I understand that it used be sort of like Windows 3.1 in that everything was in the same address space for performance. If your shop was on Windows or some Unix variant for all of its processing, would you recommend converting to z series? Clark Morris > > >Now, that would be nice, but.um.I don't think so. > > >-- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN