West coast. Through two acquisitions I was there for ~18 years, maybe consider it two different roles but doing the same sorts of things on different scales. Time and again it was all "Oh wow that's a long time. Why are you leaving?". On at least one occasion I was denied out of fear that I couldn't adapt to someplace new. I'd always been told in the past that short-term jobs were a red flag, and when I was younger I had to explain why I had a few of those -- small companies whose fortunes declined.
The irony is that I was bullied out of my last job by a Silicon Valley asshole with a long string of 1 year jobs.
A select class of professionals are the only ones able to justify the ludicrous artificial cost of TB devices -- and you can bet that TB3 will be even worse.
I'd been at my previous job for longer than 5 years, and more than once it was seen as a negative. Maybe there's east/west variance there.
Jobs that insist on physical presence mean relocating, naturally, and these days few of those offer much in the way of relocation. Figuring selling a house costs 10% of the selling price, buying means pulling 20% of the purchase price in cash out of your butt. Plus all the complications of those of us with families.
Contracting AFAICT is for young, single renters. Someone above wrote about $150/hour rates, yet the rates I see offered are more typically in the $50-60/hour range.
Sure, you've done okay. All depends on factors including where one bought on the housing price / interest rate rollercoaster. Me, my divorce and other timing stabbed me in the neck:-/
Based on my research a few months ago, $100k wouldn't come close to getting that even an hour away, esp factoring in taxes and other CA relative expenses. I had people offering me positions there making not all that much more than I was elsewhere, yet the COL was substantially higher.
Another situation is hardware with embedded Java code that won't run on modern versions, eg. the ILOM on Sun x4100/4200/4600 systems. I have an XP VM around just for dealing with them. There's never going to be an update to the firmware, so there's little choice in the matter.
Round and round we go. Agreeing to not actively poach from each other does *NOT* limit anyone's opportunities or wages. Workers were / are still free to apply for any job they damn well please.
How would Usenet be "illegal"?
As someone who used to administer Usenet servers, though, I can tell you that abuse of the system by flooding binaries is one factor in the demise of Usenet as a viable discussion forum.
Oh yes it entirely my fault that my ex-wife went violently insane, that the housing bubble happened, and that my son would be born autistic. Those were deliberate on my part.
If you've been working as an engineer for 30 years and you still need the money, you're doing it wrong.
Or, perhaps, you live in a community property state that allowed your ex-wife to bleed you dry, and you have a mortgage a family with medical needs.
Maybe you're set for life, but many of us aren't.
Order a wife from the Phillipines. Two guys I know seem to have done so.
My son was conceived when I was 42. I'd had multiple abdominal analog and CT imaging. Supposedly the germ plasm wasn't irradiated, but it's hard to be sure. And yes my son is autistic. Had I known about the correlations with older dads and other factors I wouldn't have had him.
It's only hard to find good employees if the company has its head up its collective ass. Not long ago I interviewed (through the slimiest recruiter I've ever encountered) with a company sited across a lake and toll bridge. They cling to an obsolete OS version and wanted me to spend 1.5 hrs every day commuting so I could sit at a cluster of desks shoved together 8' from their suite door. For this they offered substandard benefits and less money than I was already making. The newish IT director was decent enough, but the others I interviewed with included a twitchy paranoid type and a cocky slob.
Other places took over a month to get back to me, or had interview processes including skills outside of the scope of the job. I'm not a swdev, don't ask me to code college algorithms class problems on a whiteboard while an H1-B records my every move.
In the silly valley there's perhaps always a job across the street, but for the rest of us, often not. And I really don't want to move my family to that nightmare of a region and pay $4k / mo rent for a tiny home.
Nope. Agreement to not actively poach does not stop anyone from applying on their own. That would be a non-compete clause and a whole different subject.
I've read a claim that most employees who use an offer as leverage with their current employer end up leaving within a year anyway. Bidding wars no doubt happen for a small fraction of people, but for most I would expect the companies to have a take-it-or-leave it policy. They want to hire people who want to work for them.
I eval'd an IBM server a couple of years ago. I really wanted to like it, but the serial console didn't work out of the box, and their SE's couldn't give me a simple procedure to make it work. This confounds the hell out of deployment at any scale, and when you aren't on-site with the box. Having to plug in a legacy monitor and keyboard is a dealbreaker.
HP wins in that respect, you still need the factory Administrator password to log into iLO the first time, but at least that's printed on an exterior label. Unfortunately for all the features of the Gen 8 systems -- especially 3-way mirrors on the HBA's -- they seem to have reliability issues.
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West coast. Through two acquisitions I was there for ~18 years, maybe consider it two different roles but doing the same sorts of things on different scales. Time and again it was all "Oh wow that's a long time. Why are you leaving?". On at least one occasion I was denied out of fear that I couldn't adapt to someplace new. I'd always been told in the past that short-term jobs were a red flag, and when I was younger I had to explain why I had a few of those -- small companies whose fortunes declined. The irony is that I was bullied out of my last job by a Silicon Valley asshole with a long string of 1 year jobs.
A select class of professionals are the only ones able to justify the ludicrous artificial cost of TB devices -- and you can bet that TB3 will be even worse.
I'd been at my previous job for longer than 5 years, and more than once it was seen as a negative. Maybe there's east/west variance there. Jobs that insist on physical presence mean relocating, naturally, and these days few of those offer much in the way of relocation. Figuring selling a house costs 10% of the selling price, buying means pulling 20% of the purchase price in cash out of your butt. Plus all the complications of those of us with families. Contracting AFAICT is for young, single renters. Someone above wrote about $150/hour rates, yet the rates I see offered are more typically in the $50-60/hour range.
Sure, you've done okay. All depends on factors including where one bought on the housing price / interest rate rollercoaster. Me, my divorce and other timing stabbed me in the neck :-/
Based on my research a few months ago, $100k wouldn't come close to getting that even an hour away, esp factoring in taxes and other CA relative expenses. I had people offering me positions there making not all that much more than I was elsewhere, yet the COL was substantially higher.
Safe for whom? Not my dead border collie.
When did we start saying "remediate" instead of "fix"?
If anyone with a regular cast role on any of the Trek series is hurting for money today, they're doing something really wrong.
Another situation is hardware with embedded Java code that won't run on modern versions, eg. the ILOM on Sun x4100/4200/4600 systems. I have an XP VM around just for dealing with them. There's never going to be an update to the firmware, so there's little choice in the matter.
This would add I'm guessing another $1000 to the price of the car, and who knows how much over time to repair. Feh.
Round and round we go. Agreeing to not actively poach from each other does *NOT* limit anyone's opportunities or wages. Workers were / are still free to apply for any job they damn well please.
And as usual nothing said about what should be cut, just the usual mindless libertarian bandwagon.
How would Usenet be "illegal"? As someone who used to administer Usenet servers, though, I can tell you that abuse of the system by flooding binaries is one factor in the demise of Usenet as a viable discussion forum.
I hereby propose that Pluto be renamed Leon.
Oh I can make a hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl...
I wonder if this report factors in that in Austin one has to run AC a *lot*. Yes, I lived there for a year. The summer was brutal.
... or to understand that the charge is for the service in the first place?
Oh yes it entirely my fault that my ex-wife went violently insane, that the housing bubble happened, and that my son would be born autistic. Those were deliberate on my part.
If you've been working as an engineer for 30 years and you still need the money, you're doing it wrong.
Or, perhaps, you live in a community property state that allowed your ex-wife to bleed you dry, and you have a mortgage a family with medical needs. Maybe you're set for life, but many of us aren't.
Order a wife from the Phillipines. Two guys I know seem to have done so. My son was conceived when I was 42. I'd had multiple abdominal analog and CT imaging. Supposedly the germ plasm wasn't irradiated, but it's hard to be sure. And yes my son is autistic. Had I known about the correlations with older dads and other factors I wouldn't have had him.
It seems awfully convenient that *every* drug expires after exactly a year.
Does not the quote strictly speaking concern the companies themselves, whether or not they still make computers?
It's only hard to find good employees if the company has its head up its collective ass. Not long ago I interviewed (through the slimiest recruiter I've ever encountered) with a company sited across a lake and toll bridge. They cling to an obsolete OS version and wanted me to spend 1.5 hrs every day commuting so I could sit at a cluster of desks shoved together 8' from their suite door. For this they offered substandard benefits and less money than I was already making. The newish IT director was decent enough, but the others I interviewed with included a twitchy paranoid type and a cocky slob. Other places took over a month to get back to me, or had interview processes including skills outside of the scope of the job. I'm not a swdev, don't ask me to code college algorithms class problems on a whiteboard while an H1-B records my every move. In the silly valley there's perhaps always a job across the street, but for the rest of us, often not. And I really don't want to move my family to that nightmare of a region and pay $4k / mo rent for a tiny home.
Nope. Agreement to not actively poach does not stop anyone from applying on their own. That would be a non-compete clause and a whole different subject. I've read a claim that most employees who use an offer as leverage with their current employer end up leaving within a year anyway. Bidding wars no doubt happen for a small fraction of people, but for most I would expect the companies to have a take-it-or-leave it policy. They want to hire people who want to work for them.
I eval'd an IBM server a couple of years ago. I really wanted to like it, but the serial console didn't work out of the box, and their SE's couldn't give me a simple procedure to make it work. This confounds the hell out of deployment at any scale, and when you aren't on-site with the box. Having to plug in a legacy monitor and keyboard is a dealbreaker. HP wins in that respect, you still need the factory Administrator password to log into iLO the first time, but at least that's printed on an exterior label. Unfortunately for all the features of the Gen 8 systems -- especially 3-way mirrors on the HBA's -- they seem to have reliability issues.