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>>Being a skilled programmer is one of safest careers you could have in these days of cold economic downturn. This is temporary luck, which will probably be di
by berntb 14y ago
>>Being a skilled programmer is one of safest careers you could have in these days of cold economic downturn.
This is temporary luck, which will probably be different in the next downturn. (Just consider the IT death, ten years ago.)
- henrikschroder 14y agoThe only thing I saw happening at that time was that even though a lot of companies disappeared, all the good developers found new or kept their jobs, but all the crap developers lost their jobs.
- berntb 14y agoIt isn't that simple. I saw something similar for good developers -- that network very well and/or had a visible backlog. But sure, my data points might have been unrepresentative or the IT death might have hit harder where I was at the time (Sweden). What I can say: Ten years before that (ca 1992), Sweden had an even worse crash (think Ireland, today) -- and I know of good people that couldn't find a job.