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[+] 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)
  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    If you're a developer

    I am. The company I work for was recently bought. I'd been there 8 years so I got a couple of months they're still keeping me on.

    But the guy that had 1 idea 30+ years ago got $30,000,000 for all the risk he assumed in hiring other devs with money he already had to build his idea.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't have any other options that don't involve unskilled labor. I'm also not a young man anymore.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I was putting in about a dozen per day on LinkedIn and was getting nowhere. Then after a few weeks there weren't a dozen places left to apply at. So now I do that about twice a week and look up posts created in a week's time.

    My main skills over the last 10 years have been HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the React framework. I just got done cramming Python so I can learn Flask.

    Dice and Indeed have traditionally only gotten me third party recruiters and that never ends well or is profitable.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you're a developer and finally have a job you need to work on pushing what the industry has always needed. Start pushing to start a union.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pretty trade unions don't require everyone to work at the same shop. I paid union dues when I worked doing screen printing in a shop that was me, another dude, and the owner who did all the design. That was the entire business and we were still part of the local painters trade union.

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