3 ms·

> will I be unemployable because I spend several years in the scammy crypto industry? People that worked at Enron, Lehman, LTCM, et al all got new jobs quite e

by rabite 4y ago

> will I be unemployable because I spend several years in the scammy crypto industry? People that worked at Enron, Lehman, LTCM, et al all got new jobs quite easily. You'll be fine. > the constant backlash from the public is nagging me The public is mostly angry that they paid too much. They were speculative gamblers that bought into the bubble extremely late. This is no different than people who aggressively took loans to play landlord at the height of the housing bubble. I can empathize with people that buy idiotic scam tokens as well as people that end up holding a ton of debt as their houses get foreclosed but at the end of the day they, not you, are responsible for their poor decision making. Do you really think it is your fault that people out there mortgaged their house to do 100x leveraged longs on dog themed coins? If the wheel of fortune had gone their way instead of those shorting them, they wouldn't show any sympathy for the shorts.

whiplash451 4y ago
> People that worked at Enron, Lehman, LTCM, et al all got new jobs quite easily. You'll be fine. A lot of them probably struggled quite a bit to recover. Also, you don't know which opportunities you don't have access to anymore. People won't tell you: "I don't want to work with you because you worked for an obnoxious ad tech company", but quite a few people will think this very hard in their head. Don't underestimate the ethical questions in your career choices.
- rabite 4y ago
  > A lot of them probably struggled quite a bit to recover. The ones that were a party to fraud or extreme folly, sure, but competent people generally had the same difficulty finding a new position as anyone else after their company goes under. I knew people at Enron and Lehman that had new jobs within days and weeks of the blowup. It isn't a big deal and no reasonable person is going to hold normal employees responsible for the blowups of executives or tides of the market. Especially when useful developers are in extreme demand. > but quite a few people will think this very hard in their head. Not having to work with people who think this about potential colleagues is a blessing in itself.

by rabite 4y ago

whiplash451 4y ago

> People that worked at Enron, Lehman, LTCM, et al all got new jobs quite easily. You'll be fine. A lot of them probably struggled quite a bit to recover. Also, you don't know which opportunities you don't have access to anymore. People won't tell you: "I don't want to work with you because you worked for an obnoxious ad tech company", but quite a few people will think this very hard in their head. Don't underestimate the ethical questions in your career choices.

rabite 4y ago
> A lot of them probably struggled quite a bit to recover. The ones that were a party to fraud or extreme folly, sure, but competent people generally had the same difficulty finding a new position as anyone else after their company goes under. I knew people at Enron and Lehman that had new jobs within days and weeks of the blowup. It isn't a big deal and no reasonable person is going to hold normal employees responsible for the blowups of executives or tides of the market. Especially when useful developers are in extreme demand. > but quite a few people will think this very hard in their head. Not having to work with people who think this about potential colleagues is a blessing in itself.