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> HR must not realize that as part of the interview, candidates are also evaluating whether the company is a good place to work at. In many fields outside soft

• cheez 7y ago
  It's so easy to stay out of this. Keep up your health and don't take on debt. Gives you a lot of freedom. https://sivers.org/richand https://sivers.org/richand
  • acdha 7y ago
    Yes, lucky people have more flexibility. The problem is that very few people avoid getting sick or hurt[1], having kids, needing loans, getting laid off, etc. and a healthy society should work for more than 10% of the population. 1. “Keep your health” up is obviously naive to start with but also ask how many people are, say, hurt in car crashes or on the job every year and how cruel your advice would sound to them.
    • cheez 7y ago
      Do 80% of people get into car crashes or hurt on the job every year? No? Then my advice can apply to 80% of the people.
      • danogentili 7y ago
        Try repeating this assertion after getting into a car crash yourself
        • cheez 7y ago
          I've been in one, had a finger chopped off and been in a coma :-)
          • cheez 7y ago
            To be clear, it sucked for a bit but I came back just fine.
            • rorygibson 7y ago
              The only thing you lost was your humanity?
      • h_r 7y ago
        A very high percentage choose to buy a house or car, or have children as part of their life planning when things look fairly stable. When you grow up and have adult responsibilities, the youthful feeling of invulnerability starts to fade.
      • mandelbrotwurst 7y ago
        Your advice would be good if there were a way of knowing upfront whether you were in the 80%. Assuming that you are lucky is an extremely poor planning strategy that, yes, much of the time will result in better outcomes than not. That said, it will also result in some highly negative outcomes in other situations. Insurance has value.
• commandlinefan 7y ago
  > outside software Hell, inside it, too. I always figured that, although I morally oppose this sort of demeaning treatment, my education and experience in software would at least protect me from it. I thought that right up until my company shut down without warning a couple of years ago and I was out of work. I was a little shocked by how poorly job candidates were treated: hirevue, mandatory contract-to-hire “trial periods”, background checks (the background check I did for the job I have now demanded references for jobs all the way back to 1998!). I can’t even imagine what it’s like for the people who aren’t “in demand”.