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> If you have years or decades of experience you should have a large network of colleagues to get leads and jobs from. That's really big assumption. After spe
by SoSoRoCoCo 6y ago
> If you have years or decades of experience you should have a large network of colleagues to get leads and jobs from.
That's really big assumption.
After spending 25+ years at Intel, all of my peers were from that company, and they fall into to groups: either retired because they were there when the options were plentiful, or they are stuck there because they are over-leveraged with houses, cars and kids and their skills are pigeonholed to something only 3-4 other companies are interested in.
EDIT: You're website is great, btw!!
- gregjor 6y agoThanks for the kind words on my site. I know the problem, you work at a big company and that constrains your professional network. I worked at Nike and Apple, and when I was there all of my professional (and most of my personal) contacts/friends were also co-workers. Fortunately many of them went on to other companies and worked their way up to hiring authority positions. My advice is to expand your network outside of the software dev/tech group. Marketing people have been a rich source of work for me. I worked in logistics for a long time so I know managers who move from one place to another running distribution centers, and they have significant pull in those companies.