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If you knew a technology was going to take off, learning their programming language/API and becoming a well-known expert on it could pay great dividends. Addit
by vlad 16y ago
If you knew a technology was going to take off, learning their programming language/API and becoming a well-known expert on it could pay great dividends. Additionally, you could work there to make contacts and learn even more. Finally, you could try to join their developer programs while they are still in beta.
Note that unlike suggestions to purchase stock in the company, this advice applies to technology at private companies, as well.
- zackattack 16y agoare humanized forms of indentured servitude legal anymore? for example, could you pay to send someone to the bignerdranch bootcamp to learn iphone dev, but then have some way of mitigating the risk that they don't then go ahead and auction their new skills, acquired at your expense, on the market?
- jimbokun 16y agoAren't these called non-competes?
- zackattack 16y agoNo, because I could train you to make iPhone apps for dentist appointments and then you could go sell your skills to make iPhone apps for farting. FartGenerator, Inc. is not in competition with iHaveAToothache LLC.
- nostrademons 16y agoThere are certain contracts you can make where you agree to work for X company for Y years if they pay for your education, or you have to pay them back for the cost. The U.S. Armed Forces does this with ROTC and the military academies. Several corporations will pay for an MBA if you come back to work for them afterwards, but you have to pony up the cash yourself if you choose not to work for them. In all these cases, the choice is always "Work for us or pay us back" - I don't think you can structure a contract so that they must work for you without running afoul of the 13th amendment.