Uncle Sam wants...

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed Jun 3 22:16:25 1998

>>From the yk2 Newsletter <http://www.y2knews.com/>:
>
>"The federal government is in dire need of technical resources to fix the
>Year 2000 problem-so dire, in fact, that there is speculation about a
>possible draft of Cobol programmers."
>
>
>I wonder what bootcamp is like?

As someone that was in the Navy, and has "Intro to programming in COBOL" in
their Military service record, that isn't even funny! Thankfully I got out
without any inactive reserve time. Still the thought scares me a little,
especially since I couldn't program my way out of a wet paper bag with
COBOL :^)

                        Zane


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