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The elephant in the room - skilled mainframe professionals, or the lack there of - part 2.

I started a career in Information Systems before I had ever used a computer.

As a Gen Xer my formative years span a time of simplicity to an era of complexity. I grew up with black and white TV, rotary phones, in a time before microwave ovens. My entire primary and secondary education experience was one without computers, until the day my high school was issued a personal computer. And that computer went to the head of the P.E. department. I still scratch my head about that decision.