Posted on 03/19/2015 2:14:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you don’t mind me asking what languages are you working with?
I make 700 dimes per hour. I’m lucky I guess.
I suggest to youngsters all the time to apprentice as a fitter and after journeyman’s card and Master’s test start a Mechanical Engineering degree at night.
Probably be making 250k by age 35 and never have to re-train or be out of work more than a week.
Not always true (”There are always older tech people...”) not even mostly true. If you have not been in Silicon Valley
and watched the carnage then you really don’t know.
Believe as you will, experience says otherwise
Not so lucky....CCU and ICU nurses make more than that
I’m just telling you. There are a lot of “fixed into a mindset” folks in Silicon Valley. If they can code, they can go anywhere.
Your opinions of Microsoft are juvenile. As an example, Azure has performance metrics that meet or beat any other Cloud DB technology you could name when independent testing is done. In a tech field that is getting pushed probably as fast as any other, a leader in that field would be considered by most reasonable people to be a pretty strong tech company.
Furthermore, regarding your attack on MBA’s, sure, a lot are not (like finance), but my MBA is in Technology Management ... i.e, running a tech business, so yes, my MBA does have a lot to do with Technology.
You see to have some really weird biases in both your blanket statement as well as your defense of it. The point being, if you want to sit on your rusty dusty and complain about being left on the bench ... well, that’s your choice, but if you are willing to reinvent yourself, you wont be left on the bench. I reinvented myself at 50, and I am not on the bench.
I don’t disagree. But doing software isn’t the high tech I was talking about
And Washington state is just the capital of high tech
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