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> The trap with the older worker is a guy wants $250k, but will perform at the level of a $75/hr body shop guy. Casual ageism as if it won’t be you one day
by heartbreak 2y ago
> The trap with the older worker is a guy wants $250k, but will perform at the level of a $75/hr body shop guy.
Casual ageism as if it won’t be you one day
- ta_1138 2y agoIt's not a matter of age itself, but variance and experience. You can find the issue already at 5 years: Some people have grown and have used those years wisely, while others still are going to get experience raises, while they don't bring the improved performance.
- Spooky23 2y agoAlready there bro. Engineering is traditionally boom/bust. The baller tech dudes in 1973 were designing parts for F-15’s and making bank. By 1993 the movie “Falling Down” had come out and thousands of those folks were discarded. A big feel good stories were a bunch of aerospace engineers who applied their skills to designing low flow toilets. It happens today in tech. How many high dollar Storage Administrators are deployed in your company? The highest paid contractors in many companies were the high priests of the SAN. The vicious cycle in tech is you get trapped in a bad specialty or pulled up into middle management and purged. It mostly timing and luck. Nobody gives a shit that you were the man with some old semiconductor process. Likewise, nobody is going to pay a premium for some dude whose been a manager for a decade to sling Java.