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That's not very good resume material. And this is the only top level reply. Interesting.

How would you describe it? Our work cycle is dominated by context switching between clients and billable hours. Very often we don't get enough billable hours to resolve technical d…

Question for everyone else- how have tech related meetups recovered in your city? In Chicago I find they're still sparse, still nowhere near the level they used to be since the loc…

Or rather, how close was it like Silicon Valley to be working in tech in the UK during that time? For their time, lot of name brand products in computing came from the UK, and even…

I haven't worked a full-time web dev job since 2014, and from 2015-19 was doing freelance work with technology mostly stuck in 2014. I am aware of how much the web dev game has cha…

I'm unemployed and have been job searching for a while (though I took a recent break due to burnout). Recalling the common questions I get asked like, what tech stacks I have worke…

Some of the oldest web forums (circa '98) I've been to use the nested comment format you see on Reddit or on here. The flat timeline format because much more popular from what I've…

And why do I rarely seen any context of transition states between the two? For instance: When does a small-scale but growing app no longer qualify as "small", and does it make it a…

Digital agencies seem to get a lot of criticism in the tech world but I wouldn't mind working for one again if the job culture is right. Plus you get the opportunity to use many fr…

It's more than a concept. They already exist right now. Amazon has a returnship program for example. "Return to Work" is another name given to them. I'm interested in how to find t…

I stumbled into it by accident as a junior software engineer. They offered me a 3-month contract-to-hire job, but instead it became a 2-year independent contractor job for the comp…

As an addendum, this other question: My resume and LinkedIn profile show no work since 2019- why have no companies or recruiters targeted me with returnships- only regular jobs? I'…

No detailed plans for retirement. I'd need a new job first, to start saving again and I'll cross the bridge when I get there. But, it is true that I did not take my career seriousl…

Am confused by your second paragraph. You refer to "easy times" of 5 years ago, but also say "one of the hottest tech job markets" in the past 18 months. Not sure if this is meant …

Sunken costs. I've had my resume re-done several times, and took the aforementioned interview prep. Applied to almost a thousand jobs last year alone. It has not made me more emplo…

I've had this happen early in my career- worked permatemp as a junior and finding out what I'm allowed to do as a 1099, so I decided to set my own hours. Co-founder of the company …

More a vent than anything else... I am 40 and sort of stumbled into a weird "comfortable but still poor" loop which for me meant working low paying developer jobs on and off, until…

I came across a post of a photo of a question from a online job application. The question asked what your catchphrase would be if you played a neighbor character, in a sitcom, whos…

Most internships being accessible/important only to students, anyways. Doesn't apply to all of them (but won't fit in the title) A very cynical take I've heard is that it acts as a…

I think your advice comes from the mistaken assumption that I haven't already looked beyond FAANG companies and startups. Thereby making some of your intentions hard to follow.

As implied in the title, I'm currently unemployed and been so for about a year. But I also still need to be around other live professionals, and burying my head in books and YouTub…

The first couple years of my career were relatively normal. Full-time software development work involving teams, not always local or in-house teams, but I had at least a couple of …

I've actually had a tough time since 2016.