Dave, Eddie,
Good to hear your stories! - see inline comments:
On 2024-03-31 10:42, Dave Ihnat wrote:
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.
Beat you both! - now 72 and started using the original RH4 but moved to
F01 straight away - but I have actually been using Linux since the
Kernel 0.9 days . .
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.
Good work!
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.
Yes, I used to love building kernels etc too but after a while you do
get short of time and resort to just "getting stuff done" as quickly as
possible . .
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!
Exactly! +1
Thanks to all the devs and code maintainers who make Fedora a
possibility
for a dweeb lile me!! You guys and gals ROCK!!
From me too! - have loved this FOSS space for a long time!
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!
Good work! - In the early days I helped debug the SCSI controller but
that was about my limit of "serious" stuff . .
Kudos to all involved with this discovery and fix!
Regards,
Phil.
Sincerely,
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