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From: Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?
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Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> writes:
> Le 03-04-2025, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> a écrit :
>
>>    It's even worse now, seriously worse. Means nobody
>>    becomes "experts" in the usual sense of the word.
>
> I don't know why it's like that in the entire world, but in France, the
> reason is obvious. The company refuse to take into account technical
> skills. If you want to increase your salary, you have to switch to
> management. So, as nobody wants to become the most important guy in the
> company with the lowest salary, there is no more experts.

I think the issue is general, and so are the exceptions to it. On the
one hand I’ve heard similar complaints about UK and US employers. On the
other hand when we were owned by a French company they were very clear
about their grade structure branching into management and technical
tracks past a certain point, and they did actually implement this; at no
point did they make the mistake of asking me to do any line management.

> And most importantly, things evolved very fast, so if you become an
> expert on something which disappear, you switch very fast from very
> required guy to useless guy. So, before becoming an expert, you need to
> be sure your skills will stay useful until you retire. Which is
> difficult if you are young.

Specializing in the wrong thing is certainly a risk. For any given
technology it’s useful to be able to look past what its boosters (and
detractors) say about it to whether it does anything useful in reality.

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