We are actively seeking a new job all the time, because the moment there's a budget bump, you throw us all away like used Kleenex (R). We've all learned that trick. You need our knowledge, then you fail to see the value of institutional memory and jettison us with a "too bad, loser."
Then hiring managers want to know why we've had more than one job in the last 10 years.
Don't blame this on age, or "millennial" laziness. Don't tell me about retiring engineers. The reason they're gone is they got tossed out when they turned 40.
No, actually, the problem is more holistic than all of this. It's that you can't engineer a snowstorm, and that's what the last 50 years of IT has been: Flakes and wind and and promises of no more school. We in the industry have failed our calling.
We rely on size and complexity to somehow bring order to something human-sized and less complex. We believe financial metrics will provide some insight when all it does is allow us to make things more complex than ever, and less understandable.
This isn't among the top five issues. We all know there's something wrong. Not many are willing to ask the question "what if everything we're doing doesn't work?" So far, I've seen little evidence that, avionics, automobile engine management and entertainment aside, computers have done any more than raise expectations beyond the ability of human brains to span the result.
I am not a luddite, but I do know that paper is a technology too.
Discussion on:
Message 13 of 1
IBM Sponsored Resources
Resources from our Sponsor
- Oracle Exadata vs IBM: Netezza Compared
- Forrester TEI Report
- CIA Whitepaper
- Harnessing the Power of Advanced Analytics
- Tapping into Unleashed Business Potential with Advanced Analytics
- Unlock Analytic Performance with Revolution R for Enterprise and IBM: Netezza Data Warehouse Appliance
The best of ZDNet, delivered
ZDNet Newsletters
Get the best of ZDNet delivered straight to your inbox
