>By contrast, the people who can't program are on the job market all the time. So, the job market is heavily skewed towards people not good enough to hire. Peo

>By contrast, the people who can't program are on the job market all the time. So, the job market is heavily skewed towards people not good enough to hire. People should be allowed to leave the industry for some amount of time without being marked as damaged goods. In fact, based on how poorly technical interviews have evolved, I have no faith that a hiring manager wouldn't just blindly ignore all candidates with an employment gap on their record after reading posts similar to yours, and that really is a damn shame. It's not a humane practice.