Innocent Bystander wrote:
I've been a computer programmer for thirty years. My job title says "Senior Analyst Programmer". I've been with the same company for most of that time, but it has been bought and re-bought and changed names. Now there are only three of us from the original company, and the present company employs more than 4,000 people globally and has customers in ten countries. The database I work on, though, has been supplanted (by main force - "We'll take away your licences if you don't buy the new product") and I'm looking at the end of this project with three years to go to retirement.
I'm familiar with Unix/Linux and SQL databases.
Recently I've been amusing myself by learning Python.
Heres to the 3 years to go until retirement! May it go well.
I'm glad you've been able to stick through all the changes.
I am also in IT, but I am currently looking to get out of it. Our company (40 employees) was recently purchased by a larger company (1,000 employees) and what I had been doing made sense for 40 employees (making a new system to replace our SCO Unix manufacturing program), but doesn't make sense as the new entity. I will likely stay with the company but hope to be able to focus on only one department at some point. (Currently, I am Accounts Payable/Costing/ some Accounts Receivable/IT Support/the site HR representative/the site Trade Compliance representative/ Quality System Administrator/ and other things I've forgotten to list.)