. said:

. said:

Friend read Stroustrup's book on C++ cover to cover, every single word, five times back around 1998. He has read the latest editions.

Hmm, he's still working at age 64.

Meantime the

MAYBE I'LL LEARN PYTHON <- repeated daily for five years
\


dudes are all out of work.

Whiny OP dot 169%

. said:

The original post strikes me more as a statement of fact - or career advice - rather than a complaint.

. said:

Ladies and gontlemen we have found someone who can read!

. said:

Candidates experience is not transferable If your company is only using homegrown frameworks and proprietary software, or if you have worked in the same company for many years without any fundamental changes in the development environment, this could be you. The interviewer in this case feels that you may be productive in your current environment, but when given a different set of tools, methodologies, and team members, the candidate may encounter too steep a learning curve. This is often a response on candidates that have worked within development groups at very large companies for many years.

. said:

Look, if you're going to be a programmer, you have relatively few options for employement:

1) superstar - make it big with big company, that's probably not most of you, or you'd be cashing out at facebook right now.
2) roll your own - make some awesome software, sell it, retire. most of you are too lazy, and lack the business knowledge to pull this off.
3) military industrial complex - get a top secret security clearance, write your own ticket, never be unemployed again ( or until the US govt goes belly up).

. said:

The salary you thought was enormous when you were 25 is not enough for your wife and growing children.

Original_Lonley_Guy said:

I wasn't the earlier dot, I was just agreeing that you are a total whiner.