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Position yourself not as a programmer (or glamorous version of that: software engineer), but as a person who can boost residual value of a business. People like
by gesman 12y ago
Position yourself not as a programmer (or glamorous version of that: software engineer), but as a person who can boost residual value of a business. People like these are assets.
"Programmers", "developers" and "software engineers" are essentially liabilities. These are the first to let go when things gets uncertain.
- wturner 12y agoThis sounds great but there is one caveat. The person that does the hiring probably doesn't care about the business, they usually just care about their job. It's two different things. The exception are start ups where the person doing the hiring might be the founder or closely tied to them.