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9-to-5 coders don't need to aim for passion companies though, a job maintaining a logistics program for a pharmacy chain is good enough for them. The pay isn't
by tomatotomato37 7y ago
9-to-5 coders don't need to aim for passion companies though, a job maintaining a logistics program for a pharmacy chain is good enough for them. The pay isn't amazing but if it sustains your life passion of raising a family or becoming an award-winning ice sculptor or whatever then who cares?
- matz1 7y agoYes, even for such non passion company you still have to compete. It doesn't matter if the job if "easy", if there are 2 applicant which both are sufficiently qualified, the one which have that extra edge is the one who will get hired.
- tomatotomato37 7y agoThe point is you have to compete a lot less though. With passion companies you have to compete with Stanford graduates who have a +1000 commits in the Linux distro, whereas at your local supermarket headquarters you're just competing with people who need a desk to park themselves at for 8 hours while they daydream about fishing. It's a lot easier to compensate for lack of experience with soft skills/connections in the latter types of jobs than it is for the former.
- matz1 7y agoYes but there is more and more programmer these days, not to mention increasingly easy to be outsourced to anyone in the world. If you are not doing extra then you are going to be outcompeted.