'so sad' as in, it makes you sad how I think of these things, or 'so sad' because you agree in some extent? Anyway, I think it's sad as well. The best example

'so sad' as in, it makes you sad how I think of these things, or 'so sad' because you agree in some extent? Anyway, I think it's sad as well. The best example is to describe how our world works is where a job advert tells you to have X amount of experience with Y technology. You have Z skills, which is close to Y, but the only way to get the experience in Y is to get that, or similar jobs. But the company won't hire you, because you don't have Y. Even if you go and get Y in your spare time, that won't cut it because they want 'commercial' experience not home learning. Welcome to IT kids, where you have to be 2X years old, with 30 years of experience (commercial) and 3 degrees and Agile and 20 programming languages and... I wanted to have a good Agile experience so bad, that in every job I had, I fell flat on my face. And when I wanted them to change some things. I fell flat on my face. When I asked the 50 years old 'Senior Developer' why don't we use the Adapter Pattern, the response was a question. 'What's that?' When I wanted them to change from ant to maven? Sorry we don't have the time right now. Most of my friends who are developers as well are thinking to start their on business, or go into management, because they had enough. And all of them I would count as senior regarding their knowledge and experience. I can only talk from my experience. I am sure there are places, which are like nirvana for developers, but I haven't come across one yet.