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I am 52 years old. My “skills” aren’t “I codez real gud”. My skills are that I know how to take business stakeholders from “we don’t know what the hell we wan
by raw_anon_1111 7mo ago
I am 52 years old. My “skills” aren’t “I codez real gud”. My skills are that I know how to take business stakeholders from “we don’t know what the hell we want and we have conflicting priorities” —> empty AWS account and empty git repo —> to full implementation architecture + code either by myself or leading a team.
Enterprise development has been commoditized for well over a decade. This is where most developers work - enterprise dev. Why am I going to waste time keeping skills relevant that companies don’t value unless you go into BigTech or adjacent (been there find that) where most developers will never get .
Anecdote: I worked for a company based in Knoxville with a satellite office in Atlanta where I worked from 2014-2016. They paid developers between $115K - $135K in Atlanta then. They just posted a job on LinkedIn with the same requirements as they were back then for $140K fully remote.
Just to keep up with inflation that should be over $180k.
Just to quick Google search shows that is still average in Atlanta.