re: #128 Naso Tang

My first job was as a programmer, cobol fortran algol assembler and all those more or less dead languages, almost 40 years ago. It, and managing programmers and systems got me to where I have some income now, but I don’t think there are any programming jobs for anyone much over 30 anymore. Unless one is brilliant, it strikes me as a churn and burn profession.

Ask Charles how to create your own blog system. ;)

I don’t want to code my own blog, or run a blog at all. I have been a programmer for 30 years, still do a little work from home (for the last year, some work for Kaiser, maybe picked up 4000 last year), but I haven’t been able to find full time work for the last 4 years.

And yes, you’re right, I’m not a 30 something. I’m 56. And I am brilliant, in the sense that I know business and database design like breathing, there’s nothing you could throw at me that I haven’t already coded before, for someone.

I got in at the beginning, about 1979, help build the foundation, now they don’t need us.