It happens to everyone in the lifespan of their career: they choose where they want to land, and maintain, but never really move ahead once again. They've become obsolete.
In meteorology these days, it's all about computers and computing. Some of the old timers here -- and especially some really talented meteorologists -- are useless to us because they are uncomfortable in learning and doing something which is completely natural to us X-ers and Y-ers (technically speaking, I'm a Y-er, but I've always considered myself an X-er)... Simply operating a comuter is mystifying to the old-timers. One dude comes in and says what a horrible met shop we are, because we no longer print out the weather maps and hang them on the wall.
Our technology is a complete dissapointment to him, because in our effort to save paper, the lionshare of our work is now available to the public from inside of a plastic and metal box, with wires and circuits and excited electrons running around inside displayed on a glowing cathode-ray tube or lcd display panel, rather than on show on the back wall of our crappy-doodle office on floor 7 of this awesome and very secure high-rise.
M.W. told me this morning that it's great I'm learning to program more, because the future of meteorology is in programming. He said that if I wanted to move up and do meaningful work in the biz... I'd have to be more adaptable and better programmer. Yikes! I'm starting to feel desperate, like I have to do it to stay alive.
....deep....breath....
Dot.
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crappy doodle- hehe
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