OT: Irrelevant Job Experience for 2004 (was Re: Trumpet Winsock)

[Leo J Mauler]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:21:53 -0600 Jonathan Hutchins
<hutchins at tarcanfel.org> writes:
> On Friday, February 13, 2004 09:10 pm, david nicol wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 14:37, Leo J Mauler wrote:
> > > Anyone out there need help connecting their 
> > > Windows 3.1 machines to the Internet using 
> > > Trumpet Winsock?  Anyone?  Anyone?  
> > > Helloooo?  :)
> >
> > Yet oddly, the client-side syntax for a dial-on-demand 
> > pppd.conf file has not changed.  Although there's now 
> > a GUI tool for the settings.
>
> If the original poster of this question is still 
> having problems, please re-post your questions 
> under an appropriate topic.  I did most of the 
> documentation on how to do this for U.M.K.C.

No, I was *joking* about how a job I did from 1995-1996 is *no longer
relevant* for one's modern resume in 2004.  Trumpet Winsock is only used
in a negligible niche market, and I am unlikely to come across any
business which is still using Trumpet Winsock (and if there is one, as we
speak there is an IT Guy in their business which is offering to bring in
a computer *from his home for free*, to replace the 386 running Trumpet
Winsock).

But try telling that to my wife or her non-IT friends, especially all her
LPN and RN friends.  While medical technology may have changed in the
past 8-9 years, what you do as a RN or LPN has not radically changed, so
if you were a competent RN in 1995, you need to list that on your resume
in 2004, because it is still relevant in 2004.

It really puts the whole mad dash to obsolesence in the Computer/IT
Industry in perspective.  There are people out there who need to get
recertified for their *current* jobs, but the recertification tests they
take in 2004 are *not fundamentally different* from the tests they took
in 1995.  Diseases are still treated in roughly the same way, with
roughly the same hardware and medications.  Suturing a wound is still the
same.  Medical paperwork is still roughly the same medical paperwork.  In
many places, the computers from 1995 are still there in the hospital
wards of 2004 (the *servers* may not be the same, but thats a different
job unrelated to LPN/RN certifications).

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