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You can earn a living there, but most non-software industries are bad at software, so your skills will deteriorate and you will have a hard time finding another
by ahartmetz 7y ago
You can earn a living there, but most non-software industries are bad at software, so your skills will deteriorate and you will have a hard time finding another interesting job.
- meddlepal 7y agoIt seems this fixation on the shiny "interesting" jobs is another problem. I'm not getting any younger and I don't doubt there is some ageism in the industry but if we're biasing the search to only include FAANG and a handful of other darlin companies then that's not really a fair analysis of the situation. Anecdotal but I've seen >40 year old engineers thriving at non tech-hub software companies. There's plenty of interesting B2B companies that lurk in the suburbs or tier-2 or tier-3 cities.
- ahartmetz 7y agoI did not say that it's either FAANG or not interesting. But the companies doing interesting software work tend to be software companies. There are many counterexamples both ways.
- 0xDEFC0DE 7y agoIt only takes like a month or two to get your skills back.