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Is your career over? Probably not. But if you want to write Go, write go on your own time and use your day job to support your creative practice. The more exp
by brudgers 2y ago
Is your career over? Probably not.
But if you want to write Go, write go on your own time and use your day job to support your creative practice.
The more experience you have the more advantage there is to getting jobs through people you know, and the more disadvantage there is to looking to strangers for employment. Because looking for employment from strangers raises the legitimate question, "why doesn't this person have work through their professional network?"
The question is legitimate because of the circumstance you describe in your question...you are looking for work because you find yourself unwilling to work with other people. Sure, your personal reasons may be legitimate, but they are personal reasons not business reasons. At some level of seniority, there is an expectation that a person can put on their hipwaders and get through ordinary organizational sludge. Because that's the kind of person other senior people want to work with. Good luck.
- ackseq 2y ago"why doesn't this person have work through their professional network?" Where I am from this is called nepotism and is frowned upon. Also a sign of a flawed job market.
- the_real_cher 2y agoThats a psyop people use to put the blame for a crappy job market on the employee. "start your own business" "your network is your net worth" if these are your two options then the job market for that skill is really bad
- cafard 2y agoFinding work though a "family network" would be nepotism. Finding work through a professional network is entirely another matter. If the professional network consists of golfing buddies, no, that would not be a good thing. If it consists of peers one knows through prior work, conferences, etc., I see no reason for anyone to complain.
- fenomas 2y agoGP is talking about getting jobs via professional colleagues that know you're good at what you do. Nepotism is the opposite of that - getting a job from connections that aren't work-related.