Robert Hempel

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Best of luck to you Simon. Like many people in IT, I have more or less left or channelled my energies elsewhere. Strangely enough I used the same words IT is not fun anymore. It has become nasty, narrow minded. Sorry to disagree but it I think it’s vastly underpaid. China is churning almost as many graduates as India, but of both of them only 10-15% is considered good enough for western standards. IT has become a "be a professional IT person in 10 easy steps" without any of the understanding of how and why it came about. Ask the so called professional who is Hopper, Turing, Khan, Strousop and it s "huh who’s that”. So join the rest of us on the sidelines as we watch the embarrassment that has become British IT.