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If there were many jobs available for qualified software developers in the US, which there are not.

• snowwrestler 15y ago
  Really? Maybe it depends on the specialty, because every single company I know that works with Drupal has more work than they can handle and is hiring developers.
  • eli_gottlieb 15y ago
    It depends quite heavily what sort of software. Web development is booming. Systems software is busting.
    • tptacek 15y ago
      This mentality is a little bit crazymaking (but it may just be that I'm crazy). It's always bad for someone out there. The market is not great for SPARC assembly programmers, or for Turbo Pascal programmers, or for Motif UX specialists. I don't believe the market actually is bad for people with a modern systems programming skillset (not least because we have trouble hiring those people), but I don't doubt that there are systems jobs that used to be common that no longer are. Nobody has a license not to adapt. If you're stuck in a crappy job working overtime solely because you're stuck maintaining AIX database applications, it's hard to blame the structure of the job market on that. Get thee to Github.
      • eli_gottlieb 15y ago
        Several things: One, I wasn't referring specifically to myself. Two, I wasn't referring to someone who never learns new things. What company do you work for? We may have spoken before on this subject... Three, not everyone is in Silicon Valley.
• tptacek 15y ago
  I believe this to be the opposite of true.