The idea of considering your job trivial is a benefit, and computer development has the succinct ability to share efforts amongst a huge area of disciplines, an

The idea of considering your job trivial is a benefit, and computer development has the succinct ability to share efforts amongst a huge area of disciplines, and thus it is that a hackers career is largely 'hot-swappable' around the world. I'm the son of a man who stayed at an engineering job for 25 years. This is his largest regret, as it pigeon-holed him into the mentality that he was incapable of applying his vast talents elsewhere in the engineering field. As such, the company that he pledged allegiance to made every effort to keep his pay and benefits below the industry standard, and this was made possible by the environment he hired himself into initially. Computer development is one of the few jobs that you can seriously apply yourself at no matter where you are in the world. Why not take advantage of that fact? Responsibilities are another problem. It's a personal issue if you've decided to burden yourself financially with children, a mate, and things that are generally seen as the normal routine of adulthood, but that, like I said, is a personal issue that must be dealt with on a person to person basis. As for those with technical ability being more likely to also have social problems -- how is limiting the exposure to interviews and social interactions exactly going to help improve the individual we're talking about? It's important to be flexible. To defend a position by saying that person X is deficient too much in this way to have the means to get job Y so he must do job Z is a recipe for disaster. Social interactions are practiced, and the assertion that we should dissuade those that lack in experience from practice is wrong, in my opinion. Of course , there are legitimate roadblocks in social psychology that could prevent them from landing a job with no fault of the person, but if they got that initial job it means someone saw something in them that they related to value, and if that happens once it can happen again for them. No reason to think that anyone, ever, is stuck.