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No I haven't missed the point at all. I've worked in the industry for over 20 years now, skills are transferable only to a degree. If you are applying to a cor

No I haven't missed the point at all. I've worked in the industry for over 20 years now, skills are transferable only to a degree. If you are applying to a corporate job, the person with c#/.net has the edge over someone with the equivalent experience in python/django. Developers hate admitting this, but tech stacks matter to your hiring potential. My daughter can learn teamwork and other skills from the billion other kid oriented groups, for programming skills I'm going to help her get the easiest best paying job.

taway1237 3y ago
> for programming skills I'm going to help her get the easiest best paying job. Why would anyone want that? This sounds bland and boring.
Ancapistani 3y ago
> If you are applying to a corporate job, the person with c#/.net has the edge over someone with the equivalent experience in python/django. If. I spent seven years working a corporate job. My pay is higher today working for startups than it would have been if I'd climbed the corporate ladder. I've had a couple of windfalls in that time: a ~$50k payout when an investment round occurred prior to an IPO, and a ~$125k payout when that IPO happened after I left. If I had joined that company earlier, more aggressively exercised my RSOs when I had them, or had stayed until the IPO occurred, I would have seen a ~$1.5m profit. I learned from that, and now choose my employer based on my estimation of their chances at a successful exit in the time period I want to commit to the company. For me, that means choosing earlier-stage companies where I can accumulate more equity. A happy side effect of that is that I have a much larger relative impact on the company's direction, which keeps me interested and engaged in their success. In other words... I have no interest in a corporate job. I know I'm far from alone in that.

taway1237 3y ago

> for programming skills I'm going to help her get the easiest best paying job. Why would anyone want that? This sounds bland and boring.

Ancapistani 3y ago

> If you are applying to a corporate job, the person with c#/.net has the edge over someone with the equivalent experience in python/django. If. I spent seven years working a corporate job. My pay is higher today working for startups than it would have been if I'd climbed the corporate ladder. I've had a couple of windfalls in that time: a ~$50k payout when an investment round occurred prior to an IPO, and a ~$125k payout when that IPO happened after I left. If I had joined that company earlier, more aggressively exercised my RSOs when I had them, or had stayed until the IPO occurred, I would have seen a ~$1.5m profit. I learned from that, and now choose my employer based on my estimation of their chances at a successful exit in the time period I want to commit to the company. For me, that means choosing earlier-stage companies where I can accumulate more equity. A happy side effect of that is that I have a much larger relative impact on the company's direction, which keeps me interested and engaged in their success. In other words... I have no interest in a corporate job. I know I'm far from alone in that.