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There is though. It's 2023 and today companies will quite happily lay you off the moment you aren't profitable to them. This fictional person made it all the
by mabbo 3y ago
There is though.
It's 2023 and today companies will quite happily lay you off the moment you aren't profitable to them.
This fictional person made it all the way to retirement and good for him. But the guy who followed this strategy for 15 years and now is job hunting because the company needed to cut 18% of its staff? He's got a huge gap in useful skills and decades left before he can retire.
That guy is in real trouble.
- JackMorgan 3y agoThis is the real reason I put moderate effort into staying current: I've interviewed too many guys with 15 years in the field who can't write actual code at all because they only have written a few dozen lines ever. They are a sad lot and it's embarrassing to even interview them. If I could be guaranteed I'd have the same job forever with the same tech then who cares, but I've never met anyone for whom that was true. The people that don't learn either retire early or are forced to switch careers.
- mabbo 3y agoThey worked the same year 15 times, or maybe the same two months 90 times.
- sixstringtheory 3y agoPost hoc ergo propter hoc. They aren’t incompetent because they worked the same job for 15 years. And they probably weren’t even laid off because they were deemed incompetent. You just got unlucky enough to interview them instead of someone who got laid off after 15 years and were amazing at their job and could pick up a new tech they’d never heard of and immediately be off to the races.