Re: The future DBAs?

Arup Nanda wrote:
> Fellow DBAs and other DBA wannabes,
>
> Ever wondered the best path into a DBA career? Microsoft offers a
> brilliant way. MSN Careers at
> http://editorial.careers.msn.com/articles/nofuture/ suggests some jobs
> are effectively dead, like farmers and sewing machine operators and how
> the experts in that field can progress to the next logical career move.
> Guess which profession's logical career move is database administrator?
> See the excerpt from the webpage here in the attachment as a picture.
>
> I just couldn't resist posting it here. May be they are referring to SQL
> Server DBAs?
>
> Arup Nanda
>

Apparently this "Susan Aaron" (the author of the article) didn't even bother to read the job descriptions in her bls.gov links for the "Order Clerk" and "Database Administrator" positions. The bls.gov descriptions seem to show absolutely no link between the two positions.

Oh, and apparently, all of the secretaries and "Word Processors" of the industrialized world have been replaced by voice recognition, OCR, or have otherwise been shipped overseas... who knew? (All the execs I know dictate to tape and fed-ex it to a sweatshop deep in outer mongolia... seems it's cheaper and faster...)

Makes me feel terribly antiquated for typing things myself... I suppose I should fire up that room full of monkeys at typewriters... never know when you might need to write a Shakespeare play...

• James

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