Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 13/12/2024 10:41, D wrote:

Have a business partner who thinks exactly the same. He announced a linux sys admin job a few weeks back, and got 100 replies.
 1/3 he threw away because those were indians without swedish knowledge. 1/3 were people about to retire who just want to wait until they are 65, and he wants someone long term, and not someone who disappear after 1 or 2 years, and 1/3 were from vocational schools, that he by default throws away. The search continues!

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In my day the vocational schools produced very high quality people who took practical approaches to problem solving.

Those were the days. This is sadly no longer the case. =( Of course, there are still good people, but I know them since I teach them and meet them every other day. But as an employer, without that knowledge, it is very difficult to find them, and the rest are what spoil this type of education by simply not caring.

One guy couldn't really code, so he searched the internet and asked questions and arrived at working solutions that way. Respect.
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Another set were bright people with any degree in STEM except computer science.
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And a final set were wannabe computer geeks who read all the manuals and explored every single drop down menu entry and ended up rebuilding windows every week.
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Very useful at rebuilding customers wrecked windows installs...

When I had a consulting gig, building up a support department at a cloud provider, I had the chance to hire 6 of my old students. They performed very well, and by now they are all having above industry average salaries, with only a vocational degree. It is a nice feeling that I was able to give them a good start with their IT careers.