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My personal career epiphany was moving from a tech giant to a late-stage, pre-IPO startup. The amount of freedom and range of challenges I dealt with were exhilarating. Did it pay as much? Not in the beginning, but I was given the room to grow.

Coming from a military background, I can confidently say that promotions at that level are more the end of a political process than a true assessment of skills...

especially a used bookstore.

My company contracts with a security training site. All the videos requires Flash.

<sigh>

Yeah but who do I get to look at their EULA?

EULAs all the way down...

There was this cartoon about a guy graduating top of his class in a CS program and the hoopla of him being hired at a "Big Tech" firm. Then he discover that his role was basically to keep someone on a web page for a half second longer...

I always refer to my Toronto colleagues ( I am in Seattle ) as Southerners...

Your local QFC is really a Kroger btw

Pretty soon you're talking about real money

Yeah, but people still want to live there vs. Youngstown or Cleveland

Agreed, I already cancelled my business travel two weeks before our state issued its first guidance on WFH. OpenTable's data showed the significant drop in reservations weeks before official orders as well.

Open the stores and nobody comes?

Consider also that alot of retirees don't stay in Illinois as well. So other states are benefiting from the discretionary spending funded by Illinois taxpayers