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Hi,
I am working/contracting for a firm where most of the staff is still working from home. There are a lot of younger/graduates around. We had a major power cut on Thursday (build work next door managed to put it out). One of the test PC's on the shop floor died. I was the only technical person who knew what the 'odd' connects in the case were (ISA ports), the funky old version of Windows (2000) there was also whats that port (paraellel). The worst point was 'Win95? Old Skool'  turns out the guy wasn't born until 1999. To all when do you start feeling old not experienced. 
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The first time I worked for someone younger than me.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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When you start working with people younger than your kids...😫
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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That doesn't bother me. I never wanted to go into Management (shudder) - not even as a lowly Team Leader.
I have an "agreement" with my boss - he doesn't ask me to deal with political cr@p, thus freeing me to deal with the technical side. So far, it has worked quite well...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I have an "agreement" with my boss - he doesn't ask me to deal with political cr@p, thus freeing me to deal with the technical side. So far, it has worked quite well...
I officially envy you 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Almost the same for me, thank goodness!
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Pretty much the same here. I have no problem being a tech lead but don't want the excessive BS meetings with managers, salesmen and such. Just have no patience for it.
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At the moment I am the "Builder Dinosaur" who still maintains the scripting written in DOS.
I live in peaceful coexistence with some younger colleagues that love to use the latest web-technologies and know nothing about such arcane things.
But often I scratch my head on how to deploy their stuff, that's something they don't even think about it seems, or only as a last-minute thought.
In Dutch we have a saying "De jeugd van tegenwoordig" (the youths of nowadays)
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RickZeeland wrote: In Dutch we have a saying "De jeugd van tegenwoordig" (the youths of nowadays)
Even in ancient Greece, there were laments about how today's youth dressed strangely and didn't respect their elders. 
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Greece, my next holiday destination!
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Awesome Gyros and cheap 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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When I had to explain to the youngins that ASCII consists of codes below the value of 32 that originated from teletype machines, like BEL 
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Great set of delimiters (originating from the teletype days) in that set of characters under 32 ASCII.
Proud to be still developing and writing code (mostly C# and T-SQL) at almost 67.
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Same for me. I'll be 68 in May.
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Every time I go to QA ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
modified 2-Oct-21 10:11am.
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You have a pc yet with ISA ports!!??
Burn it with fire along with whatever peripheral requires it.
Hopefully the pointy haired boss doesn't know it stands for Industry Standard Architecture.
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The PC with ISA ports is used to interface to some temperature & pressure chambers...
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My old company still sells them. And they build a double sided custom board, one side PCI, the other side ISA, for backwards compatibility.
I surprised my coworkers when I recognized the ISA bus - I started very very young.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The first time I walked into my local Cub Scout Pack as a district representative and realized the guy standing before me to register his son had been in my son's den.
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When you realise that:
- You not only know what 6502, 6809, 8080, 8085, 8086, (and many others) are, but you've written assembly-language code for each of them.
- The IBM 360 is younger than you are.
... - (for some of us) ENIAC is younger than they are
Is there someone here who was born before the Mark I?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Born 1945. Didn't see a computer until 1953 though.
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I started to feel old when realized one of the newcomers don't even recognize a 1.44 FD...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Have you been 3D printing models of the save icon again?
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