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This seems curious to me, here in the midwest, it's pretty common for non software companies with shit legacy apps to desperately hire anyone with experience. T

This seems curious to me, here in the midwest, it's pretty common for non software companies with shit legacy apps to desperately hire anyone with experience. These companies find it impossible to keep developers, no one wants to work at them. I'm at one now, making the highest salary of my career thus far. I'm not quiet 50.

mcguire 9y ago
Similar situation for places with government contracting. Check out Huntsville, AL, for example.
jpindar 9y ago
Do they do remote?
- sokoloff 9y ago
  A random Midwest non-software company with a line of business legacy app that they want to keep limping along is unlikely to even know how to answer "do you do remote?" They have a business problem they need solved, and that almost surely means "come in, walk around, talk to people, and figure it out".
bradknowles 9y ago
There are limits to what I am willing to do. For example, I don't do Windows. There are also limits to what I am capable of doing. I like to think I'm pretty good at the Ops side of the house, and I'm more than happy to work with Devs as part of a larger team, but I am not a Programmer or Developer. I can hack on code to a degree, but I simply do not have the capacity to develop code from scratch. My wife and I have lived in Austin since 2006, and we are not willing to relocate in order for me to get a job. Since she is an international business lawyer who has always made at least twice what I have ever made (even comparing her worst year to my best), it just doesn't make financial sense for us to move. So, I'm limited to jobs I can get here in Austin, or to work remotely. Austin being the town it is, there are lots of startups here, but they want devs and not ops. Or they want devs who can do everything. There's also a number of big enterprise companies here, but of course they want Windows. The University isn't an option because I found out the hard way that they are the biggest flying Mongolian clusterfuck in town. Sigh....
- le-mark 9y ago
  > but I find that it is damn hard to get a second interview -- anywhere. So your original comment was a bit disingenuous, you have a lot of conditions to where you'll work, but you then you also tried to use the "age discrimination in tech" narrative to garner sympathy (so I suppose). If there is age discrimination in tech (which I don't see myself, I see the opposite), then commentary like your original post don't help.

mcguire 9y ago

Similar situation for places with government contracting. Check out Huntsville, AL, for example.

jpindar 9y ago

Do they do remote?

sokoloff 9y ago
A random Midwest non-software company with a line of business legacy app that they want to keep limping along is unlikely to even know how to answer "do you do remote?" They have a business problem they need solved, and that almost surely means "come in, walk around, talk to people, and figure it out".

bradknowles 9y ago

There are limits to what I am willing to do. For example, I don't do Windows. There are also limits to what I am capable of doing. I like to think I'm pretty good at the Ops side of the house, and I'm more than happy to work with Devs as part of a larger team, but I am not a Programmer or Developer. I can hack on code to a degree, but I simply do not have the capacity to develop code from scratch. My wife and I have lived in Austin since 2006, and we are not willing to relocate in order for me to get a job. Since she is an international business lawyer who has always made at least twice what I have ever made (even comparing her worst year to my best), it just doesn't make financial sense for us to move. So, I'm limited to jobs I can get here in Austin, or to work remotely. Austin being the town it is, there are lots of startups here, but they want devs and not ops. Or they want devs who can do everything. There's also a number of big enterprise companies here, but of course they want Windows. The University isn't an option because I found out the hard way that they are the biggest flying Mongolian clusterfuck in town. Sigh....

le-mark 9y ago
> but I find that it is damn hard to get a second interview -- anywhere. So your original comment was a bit disingenuous, you have a lot of conditions to where you'll work, but you then you also tried to use the "age discrimination in tech" narrative to garner sympathy (so I suppose). If there is age discrimination in tech (which I don't see myself, I see the opposite), then commentary like your original post don't help.