If anyone has a problem with it, tell them that you update your resume every year, sometimes more often if you change roles significantly or add new major capab

If anyone has a problem with it, tell them that you update your resume every year, sometimes more often if you change roles significantly or add new major capabilities/certifications. I firmly believe everyone should be doing that, and it's among the first bits of advice I give to any dev I mentor. It doesn't mean you are actively looking for a new job. Generally, if you are the one looking you have put yourself in a buyer's market. You, and your potential increase in your next employers revenue, are what's being sold. So a buyer's market is not good here. OTOH, people will come to you asking if you're interested, putting you into a seller's market, if you do the following and are legitimately good: * Continually update your resume and make it publicly accessible as well as easy to find * Network frequently, but also network organically, sincerely, and follow through by maintaining the connections you meet * Get your work out there and visible via Github, Gitlab, contributing to Open Source projects, etc. Sometimes this is hard, for example if you work as a defense contractor. I've had regular increases in overall compensation at rates usually above my peers, work on great teams, and all without a gap in employment since 2001. I am definitely not the typical HN reader though. East Coast, not in a VC startup, family, and defense contractor (though not on weapons).