On 30 Mar at 17:46, Eddie O'Connor <eoconnor25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >...and while I'm not a developer?...I would LOVE to BE > one!...as my son is now college bound and I don't have "babies" to tend > to...I work from home...and if I could learn the framework and > languages?..I would SO volunteer, I'm a "spry" 52 yr old...who's been in IT > since '99... I've been a developer since I got out of college ~1976. I don't know how spry I am, but I am 70 and still rockin' as my own consultant. Actually--I was a full-time developer through around 2004, when I went out on my own. Incorporated my own business as an IT Consultant. Specialized in SMBs (Small/Medium Businesses), since I'd observed they get screwed by the consulting firms. Since that time, I've done much less software development. Why? How many times can I rewrite the same solution, in different languages, for the same problems? That got tiring. I'm not saying that you shouldn't go for it--you *haven't* gone through my decades of development, and it's amazingly rewarding when you get in the groove. > I guess we all have fantasy jobs though eh? Don't just treat it as fantasy. When I went to create my own company at 51, I had a friend who griped, "You can't do that! You're too old!". Foo on him. Go for what you want! > Thanks to all the devs and code maintainers who make Fedora a possibility > for a dweeb lile me!! You guys and gals ROCK!! I re-wrote "cut" and "paste" and submitted them to Gnu back in the '80s. It was both gratifying and amazingly painful (BTL lawyers were not best pleased. Fortunately, I did it "by the book"--got permission from my BTL consultant manager, made sure I didn't look at the original source code, etc.) so I ended up clean. Open Source is the way to keep things moving and surviving. If you want to get into it, DO IT! Sincerely, -- Dave Ihnat -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
