your job = what in HP land?

[Catherine Keegan]

No: HPFGUIDX 26458

At 09:06 PM 9/21/01 -0700, catlady/Rita wrote:
>Catherine in California/medieval Albion wrote:
> > Somehow I can't imagine my old turf of > programmer would be needed 
> since they
> > don't seem to have any kind of computers
>
>I'm a COBOL pgmmer. It seems to me that applications pgmming is kind of
>like modifying spells and systems pgmming is kind of like inventing new
>spells.

LOL!  I was one, too, for about a decade but then I got into MVS systems 
work (and a brief sojourn into DB/2) but now I'm a craftsman and I get to 
actually touch my work instead of "if you didn't know I was there, it 
worked like a champ".

I dunno.  I think applications work is more like MoM work but I'd be happy 
to be convinced otherwise  I think systems work is more like building and 
maintaining a network of spells and charms, etc...  But they both require 
some kind of JCL/DCL/whatever to make them go.  Hmm, maybe there's a group 
of wizards who make sure spells continue to work over time.  I think I'm 
going to sit down now and enjoy the image of a cube farm in the wizard 
world.  I wonder what Dilbert would do in the wizarding world?

I'd like to hear what other folks think their jobs would equate, too, or is 
that something else that needs to go onto the OT list?

Catherine in California