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The stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Since it's 9:37am the morning after I'm guessing many people are at anger moving

by lujim 10y ago

The stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Since it's 9:37am the morning after I'm guessing many people are at anger moving into bargaining right now. "I'm mad and if I move to Canada it will show everyone and solve my problems". We should be moving into acceptance by the weekend. No need to DDOS this poor site.

soundwave106 10y ago
The problem I see in this case is a lot of genuine uncertainty. Particularly if you are IT in a global reaching business, of whom would be affected by talk on clamping down on free trade and immigration. Trump could end up being an old style Republican in disguise after all, for all we know, and the campaign bluster is just bluster. That's not bad for the career path. Trump could also be a genuine raging fascist. That's not really good for the career path at all. Or Trump could end up being in that "most likely" middle, aka a Berlusconi type figure. For the career path there, that's a solid "meh" (although I did hear there was a bit of a brain drain in the Berlusconi days). Remember that Hillary Clinton was "most likely" to win. You can't take "most likely" for granted these days. So one needs to evaluate all options (without being so ridiculously alarmist and realize that the worst case doesn't always happen). In the worst case scenario, I can't imagine global-reaching companies being gun-ho about maintaining a strong presence here. And I "go where the jobs go", to be honest. Some of the Canada querying I'm sure is OMG PANIC but maybe some of it is also hedging your bets...
- lujim 10y ago
  We all have much less control over our career paths than we realize. Do your best work everyday, try to be pleasant to the people you manage/work with/work for. Throw a few percent of every check into a decent index fund, put down the smart phone when your kids want your attention, and if your career ends as a Walmart door greeter or replaceable corporate cog, all the "coulda's" in the world won't change anything.

by lujim 10y ago

soundwave106 10y ago

The problem I see in this case is a lot of genuine uncertainty. Particularly if you are IT in a global reaching business, of whom would be affected by talk on clamping down on free trade and immigration. Trump could end up being an old style Republican in disguise after all, for all we know, and the campaign bluster is just bluster. That's not bad for the career path. Trump could also be a genuine raging fascist. That's not really good for the career path at all. Or Trump could end up being in that "most likely" middle, aka a Berlusconi type figure. For the career path there, that's a solid "meh" (although I did hear there was a bit of a brain drain in the Berlusconi days). Remember that Hillary Clinton was "most likely" to win. You can't take "most likely" for granted these days. So one needs to evaluate all options (without being so ridiculously alarmist and realize that the worst case doesn't always happen). In the worst case scenario, I can't imagine global-reaching companies being gun-ho about maintaining a strong presence here. And I "go where the jobs go", to be honest. Some of the Canada querying I'm sure is OMG PANIC but maybe some of it is also hedging your bets...

lujim 10y ago
We all have much less control over our career paths than we realize. Do your best work everyday, try to be pleasant to the people you manage/work with/work for. Throw a few percent of every check into a decent index fund, put down the smart phone when your kids want your attention, and if your career ends as a Walmart door greeter or replaceable corporate cog, all the "coulda's" in the world won't change anything.