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I've been suffering similar existential career dread recently. I'm 41 and it seems like the demands on me as a geo dev are getting ridiculous i.e. you must be a

I've been suffering similar existential career dread recently. I'm 41 and it seems like the demands on me as a geo dev are getting ridiculous i.e. you must be a full stack developer in several stacks, know Windows and Linux, be an expert in Esri AND open source GIS and preferably have an earth-shattering Github profile and be able to consult, do marketing, etc. etc., and all for a salary that is probably 1/2 to 1/3 what someone would make at e.g. Google. And yet it's been hinted that my employer considers me expensive and apparently thinks they can replace us pricey oldsters with cheap grads >:( Hoping to switch into a pure .NET role soon and leave the madness of being asked to work in a different framework month by month behind. That said I think the idea of working together on something altogether different from tech sounds interesting.

xtracto 9y ago
>and preferably have an earth-shattering Github profile and be able to consult. As someone who is currently hiring programmer (onsite in Mexico mind you... that people don't get to excited), I loathe this trend of looking at someones public Github profile (I've seen it happen a lot in the industry). So, what do you mean I am not elegible because I have been working in proprietary projects for 20 years for my different employees, giving 110% of my time (literally 100% of paid + the unpaid extra hours) and haven't dropped all the proprietary code in my public GitHub account. that . I write code to get paid, I expect people that works for me to write good code to get good pay and to check that code into the company repos. If they do some open source coding outside job, good for them, but that does not represent what they have been doing during working hours.