Kevin: Don't be so quick to reject compliments. Thanks to your insightful posts on SI, you are now a recognized Y2K guru. That qualifies you to get one of those $100,000 per year COBOL programmer jobs, specializing in pretending you know what you're doing. (For those uninitiated out there, we call those gurus "consultants" in the software business).
And, after the Y2K fiasco is over and the company gets sued by their stockholders, you can hire yourself out to those same companies to analyze what went wrong. Assuming, of course, that they didn't go out of business in the meantime. Your presentation to the Board of Directors can be fairly simple. Just show a slide that displays a graph of the steep incline in the shortage of programmers, and tell them they should have started 5 years earlier. You can make a killling!
Or, you could sell them today on the idea of buying a "fully automated" tool that will solve all their problems so that they don't need all those high paid programmers. I know of a whole list of possibilities. Not that they actually work, mind you ... but that's implementation, and beyond a consultant's scope. It wouldn't be your fault that they didn't retain you for the whole project!
Hey, this is sounding better all the time. Do you have any interest in going into business together? How about you, David Eddy? We could call ourselves FBN Consulting (Fly By Night).
Cheers,
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