So there’s a thing going around Facebook where you are supposed to list ten jobs, nine of which you have done and one of which you have not. Gentle reader, as you know, I have held many, many jobs in my life as I have a degree in English and Philosophy, and that leads one to a vagabond life of chasing an extra quarter an hour until you trip into a career. Or it did for me, anyway.
At any rate, I cannot do a Facebook share-your-personal-information schtick without subverting it, so I posted this:
Let me explain.
These are job declarations in Job Control Language, one of those inscrutable but efficient programming languages that run on Big Iron, that is, mainframes and whatnot.
You know, I’ve never programmed in that language, although there’s probably still plenty of jobs for programming Big Iron around. My rejoinder on Facebook is going to be that it’s the 21st century, man. But the last statement is not a job, it’s the invocation of a job library. Or something.
I know a couple of old programmers who might get the joke. Strangely enough, my sainted mother had to run JCL commands at her last government job, so she might have gotten it. But probably nobody else.
It’s so obscure that it made me laugh out loud, though. Sad!
Also, I want to remind you, gentle reader, why I do not play in these cut-and-paste-games on Facebook:
(Last image courtesy of Glenn Reynolds’ Facebook feed.)
