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"Instead of these guys going to town hall meetings, why don't they brush up on their development skills and learn something new?" If those specific unemployed
by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"Instead of these guys going to town hall meetings, why don't they brush up on their development skills and learn something new?"
If those specific unemployed people all went home and learned Android development, most of them still wouldn't be hired, anywhere, not in tech (because they're old and unemployed) and not in "survival" jobs (because they're old, and they'll leave when they find something better). They're garbage as far as the economy is concerned. That the practice of refusing to consider unemployed people for hiring is common enough to warrant discussion partially supports that.
- RandallBrown 15y agoJust add the "freelancer" line to your resume and voila, you've no longer been unemployed for a few years. This also assumes that you've been doing something that could qualify as freelancing like working on some phone apps or a website or something. If you've been sitting on your ass for 2 years, yeah it's going to look pretty bad to employers.
- wyclif 15y agoIf they've been sitting on their ass. But when the economy tanked, a lot of people took the money they saved during the boom years and traveled the world. Or learned a new programming language. Or built something useful. So 2 year gaps in work history shouldn't be a deal killer. If they are, the system is truly, tragically broken.
- keithpeter 15y agoThis works outside the computer related industry as well. I was made redundant from a managerial job in teaching. I did some authoring of e-learning materials, did some sessional work (fee paid teaching) for a couple of local institutions, then found a salaried job within six months. At no time was I officially unemployed. My CV is seamless.