srb4

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   by srb4 4y ago

   I lost a job twice during the dotcom era and again last year during COVID. It happens even to good people sometimes due to circumstances outside of your control. The very best way to land a new job is by networking. Follow up with former c
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   by srb4 4y ago

   Practically speaking it had little effect, but as a college student in CS during the trial it helped to solidify a very negative impression of Microsoft. The cool technologies at the time were not coming out of Redmond. UNIX/Linux, J
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   by srb4 5y ago

   I thought I was going to be rich with my first job at a startup out of college but the dot com bust basically made it all worthless. Stock is great but cash would have been better.
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   by srb4 7y ago

   I used to work for a defense contractor and was involved in several proposals. A similar situation happened to us. RFP was written in a way that strongly favored our product. The proposal team thought we were the only contractor that coul