Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Adrian Caspersz Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Are geeks becoming more respected? Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:40:50 +0000 Organization: Keep Usenet Newsgroups Alive!! Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net nG5dIhxrSL4NpoJEp3vChQCbB//0bFGHyg2xhAQL6TUYaCdWds Cancel-Lock: sha1:AZ8KNKrx879OWQz55yOAw+SjA7U= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:13343 On 21/03/17 23:35, Sylvia Else wrote: > One of things I seem to spend a fair amount of time doing is helping > technically illiterate people with their modern technology. That is to > say, whereas in the past, my geekiness was of no use to most people, > that's changed. > > I'm too old for that to make much difference to me, but I wonder whether > younger geeks are getting more respect from their non-geek associates now. It's getting difficult to get front line IT jobs, geeks natural instinctive skills are diluted in a job market where others gain applicable work skills by memorising methods and tutorials from a few books. Then, they are also discriminated against by agencies job recruiters who fear the lack of a social fit with other members of staff, mainly by checking online social profiles, Facebook, LinkedIn etc... And then for the business suits to get a handle on developers, some smart alec developed devops, scrum teams and other project based nomenclature, and turned the whole software development life cycle thing into a dystopian environment where no one speaks plain English, and the office atmosphere is like being at a racetrack beaten by a jockey’s whip, interspersed with the occasional 'high-five' enjoyed by those in the business suit... -- Adrian C