On 11/06/2015 4:46 p.m., Alex White-Robinson wrote:
Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> wrote:
On a slightly different note, however--while it's good to have an appreciation of the past and how we got here, I think it's wise to also recognize we as an industry have some challenges bringing new blood in--and treating it too much like a sacred priesthood with cabalistic knowledge and initiation rites isn't going to help us bring new engineers into the field to take over for us crusty old farts when our eyes give out and we can't type into our 9600 baud serial consoles anymore.
Matt CCOF #1999322002 [0] I've seen very little attention paid to junior talent in the last few years, and know a few people who would have been talented engineers that never got a chance to show it. They moved into other industries because of the lack of junior roles.
I know very few people in network engineering that are under thirty, and not that many under thirty five.
An interesting statement; both my current network engineering team members are under 35 (and one is under 30) - i'm actually on the hunt for a slightly more senior resource at the moment to take up a vacant Team Leader role, and the candidates i've had apply are generally in their 30's. But perhaps New Zealand is a different audience to the North American continent. Fair enough. My career started as a Network Junior and i'm keen to facilitiate opportunities to move upward for others who're in similar circumstances to that which I was in ~10 years ago, surely i'm not that unusual...?? Mark.