Gone those good old days.

[charlesdego]

Hi All,

It is time for most of us to switch our career from JDE to other Technologies. Gone those good old days where we used to get the blank check offers and continution projects. Please do not write any negative comments to this because i saw the recession in USA and suffering without a project inspite of working for 8 years as a consultant in Enterprise one and world. Not even getting the Interview calls from past 2 months. Please do not encorage the new commers. Please leave this thread alive to share our experiences.

I know most of you don't like this post but it is true.

Thanks,
Barack
JDE Enterpriseone B7332 XE, 8.9, 8.11, 8.12
JDE World A7.3

 

[Zoltan_Gyimesi]

Hi Barack (charlesdego???),

I am sorry, reading your post

I really do not want to dispute with you - but is the scenario really so dark?

(BTW: There is a "Job Opportunities" site of jDEList - and do not wait for an interview call as passive, be active and search the market)

As I had seen & I am seeing:
- when I was forced (as an employee) to study AS400/OS400/DB2/RPG/CL, I thought, it is a "Dino" and it has not more future, than 1-2 years in this world. I missed.
- IBM (TradeMark) survived the big bottle on the "computing world" - I am sure, there are programs and running in live environments, which had been written originally in FORTRAN, ALGOL, etc. programming languages
- as I see, there are many OW clients, who has no real and financable chance to upgrade from XE, because they has so many customizations, etc. OR on the other hand, to migrate to a different ERP system.

That's all my comments now.

... just one more: do you think, is the cheap and (???) Asian human resorces are behind the scenes?
...and at this time, I beg the pardon all off the expert and studious Asians members.

Regards,

Zoltán
PS: don't be hurted, but did you know, "Barack" mean "Peach" in my loved Hungarian language?

 

[JDdev]

The recession may be not only for JDE but also for other technologies , upto myknowledge it depends on US economy and not something else...

 

[altquark]

There is no room for package builders anymore. If that is your role, then you're not going to survive as a "CNC consultant" anymore. There is, however, a lot of room for those of us who are CNC Implementation specialists - who concentrate on upgrades (and there are so MANY upgrades right now, i'm completely swamped) or migrations. Please read the first chapter of the Configuration Planning and Setup guides - where it mentions the two types of CNC roles. CNC Administrators and CNC Implementors. I have NEVER recommended that any "CNC Administrator" become a consultant - those positions are relatively easy to train or outsource to a "cheap" company. However, the CNC Implementor is a much rarer position - someone who fully understands the technology deeply, and makes architecture recommendations to customers.

There is plenty of work for CNC Implementors, Developers and Functional Analysts. The position of "CNC Administrator" has been merged with other technical IT personnel at most companies.

Since you've never posted anything on this website - and your comment of "no blank check" and "no continuation contracts" leads me to believe that its a very GOOD thing that companies are starting to pass you by. There has NEVER been any "blank checks" in my book. You must ALWAYS provide a business justification and a certain ROI based on any project I've worked on. If you had some easy money projects in the past, then good for you !

 

[Obama]

Hi Charles,

I Understand your situation, please dont get panicced every thing is going to come on track as soon as obama become our next President. Keep searching for projects iam sure you will endup getting a good project. All the best.

Guy's do not discourage any one because we are not supposed to . I see lot of people writing the crapy [censored] in this forum discouraging people. Again I respect this forum since its really a good one for JDE guy's.

Thanks