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I'm 36 and in ~17 years of being a developer professionally, I've yet to find employment at a single company that offers any kind of retirement plan at all. I
by fooey 10y ago
I'm 36 and in ~17 years of being a developer professionally, I've yet to find employment at a single company that offers any kind of retirement plan at all.
I max out my IRA each year, but my retirement plan is to basically work until I can't, then hop on an iceberg.
IMHO, between Americans being drastically underprepared for retirement and mass job automation, the country is on the cusp of a devastatingly colossal social disaster.
- TheCoelacanth 10y agoWhat kind of developer job doesn't have a 401k? Even the minimum wage job I had my first summer out of high school had one.
- jessaustin 10y agoYou had a minimum wage job with a 401k? That was a firm with a bigger HR department than it needed.
- anigbrowl 10y agoLarge firms can have low-paying entry-level jobs.
- DashRattlesnake 10y ago> You had a minimum wage job with a 401k? That was a firm with a bigger HR department than it needed. Aren't there giant companies that employ low wage workers (e.g. McDonalds and Starbucks) that might reasonably offer 401ks to all employees, even the minimum wage ones? Ignoring the question if a minimum wage person can realistically afford to save, or course.
- fooey 10y agoI'm in Southern Utah, so it's not very competitive for tech work. I should move, but inertia and a bit of luck stumbling into the few webdev jobs that are around here has kept me in place so far.
- dmux 10y agoPlenty of high paying Boston companies.