[Troop139] A Lifetime of Continuous Learning

[BEATTIE JR., GORDON]

Hi Folks!
It's been awhile since we've had a chance to bring you up to date on the type of training environment we are in here at AT&T.
While this New York Times article tends to show the burdens of this continuous learning process, understand that the company wants to retain its valuable labor force and that it feels the needs to motivate some who have not been "keep up" with a changing technology landscape.  Moreover, they are paying for it, so from an employee viewpoint, this is pretty wonderful, if you see it as an opportunity.  From my own experience it is benefiting the employees, the customers and the business and will continuously enhance those benefits.

Here's the article:  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/technology/gearing-up-for-the-cloud-att-tells-its-workers-adapt-or-else.html?_r=1

One last thing:  As I've said to you boys (and sometimes parents), "Be the solution to the problem waiting for the problem to show up."

One way to do that is to volunteer to do tough jobs, be a bridge builder and an innovator.  You will never know what opportunities will come your way for having taken on challenges in your past when you apply your "God-given gifts".

Yours in Scouting,

J. Gordon Beattie, Jr.
Principal Technical Architect
AT&T Software Development & Engineering
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