If you want really old, I have a Multics simulator. -- DRBrown.TSDC@HI-Multics.ARPA On 3/7/25 21:53, Nick Accad via talk wrote:
Anyone wants to play with OpenVMS 7.3/VAX let me know :) I have a couple running under Simh and I can help you set one up if you want.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 17:41 William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
IBM mainframe are DEC VAX too old. There must be some job category for 50+ men. :-)
On 2025-03-07 17:20, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > Companies using AI were insta-rejecting me. > > The first thing I looked at was ageism. > > * I pruned my resume so that AI says I'm in my sixies, and in the two > cases I have tried since, the rejections came in one or more days > later. The companies may not be ageist, but the black-box AI tools > appear to have it bad. > > * Conversely, some folks advertise themselves as Unix greybeards. I > was recruited twice /because/ I'm old. A former employer > consciously looked for candidates for VP and director who were in > their mid-fifties to low sixties. > > Lexis Nexis and a couple of other companies still have IBM mainframes, > so that's a opportunity. Ditto DEC VMS. > > Hmmn, I should set up a search for Solaris jobs (:-)) > > --dave > > > On 3/7/25 16:04, William Park via talk wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Do you know any job site, for old guys with legacy skill sets? Regular >> job, contract, full time, part time, anything is okay. >> >> Right now, I'm using Indeed and LinkedIn to look for job. For search, >> Indeed returns more relevant job posts than LinkedIn. LinkedIn returns >> too many irrelevant posts, but I nevertheless dig through them, hoping >> for that right fit. >> >> Anyways, I'm finding, my expertise and skill sets are old. I don't >> have the latest lingo in tools, programming language, GUI framework, >> web this and that, etc. I don't pass filter (AI or human). > > -- > David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify > System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest > davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain > > > --- > Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org > Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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