Re: What to do when your son tell you he hates you.



enigma wrote:
Beliavsky <beliavsky@xxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1193385521.091096.51550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:


(1) he worked odd jobs out of the field
(2) 5 years experience in a trade that had only existed
for 7 years at the time. yeah, that was likely.

Are you saying that he should have obtained a B.S. in
computer science instead?


not at all. i'm saying that employers sometimes ask for the impossible in employees.

Yeah, I remember my husband once showing me an employment ad requiring "10 years of C++ experience." At the time, you'd just about have to have been Bjarne Stroustrup's right-hand assistant at Bell Labs to meet that requirement.

Clisby

at least gender discrimination isn't quite as much of an issue now as when i was just out of college... girls just didn't get jobs in agriculture unless it involved horses back then. now over 60% of small or family farms are run by women.
lee
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