nordic_nomad

Valid point. Maybe rent is a control factor. Otherwise they'd just hang on forever.

No, it's based on foursquare and other location based app check ins.

Thoughtful of him.

If you have a good recruiter (the last one I worked with was such) they'll negotiate for you. This one asked me what I was looking for, said I could get more than that, and then got even more than that for me. Just because they have industry data and like jobs to back up the negotiation.

I've had bad ones of course, I think everyone has. But the good ones can do a lot more leg work than you have time for and find you a much better situation than you could find on your own, plus play both sides to make their comission as big as possible which benefits you.

The best are agents, the worst are pimps.

Holy god, that's a job in technology? Sounds like your typical retail wage slave situation here in the US. Even entry level tech jobs are in the $40-$50k range generally.

This is a good observation. All I can think of is that generally the impact of unconfirmed take over offers that might not happen is significantly less than missing earnings projections.

I imagine if anything ends up gaining steam you'll see people jump on board hoping for a premium on the stock purchase.

Yep, undergrad was in finance. Grad school was an MBA in entrepreneurship.

The job cycle is a lot shorter now than it used to be, and the landscape changes a lot faster. I'm in my 30's now, but have had to completely reinvent myself 3 times already (twice within tech) and expect it to happen more.

Ageism works against the young as well as the old. Most of these 20 something people I'd suspect, if they haven't been developers since they were 9, have run into it. The advice is still sound.

An employable skillset is now a moving target. You can't depend on job websites to get the job done. Your number one job is to be your own salesperson. Find someone who is where you want to be and find out how they got there, you're probably not that far off from being able to replicate their methods if you're already in the field.

Being hopeless and depressed about the issue doesn't solve anything, and if you're over 40 you have plenty of advantages. Become a consultant and sell yourself to companies who won't even give a 20 year old the time of day. They may not want to hire your outright, but they can definitely see they need your expertise.

Make your own job man, if you did any freelance work then you were self employed. If you find yourself unemployed, hack on something in between interviews and call it a startup that didn't work out.

Never, never, never admit to any hiring person that you weren't in charge of your career path at all times. That's one of the few distinctions they can make with technical people about whether or not they're qualified or not. Don't make it easy for them.

That's what I was thinking. Find something 1 in 1000 would pay a dollar for and you're golden.

Ah, yeah definitely need something like angular then. Very cool sounding project.