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Re: Web Development as a career – the realities

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We need a union.

It will not happen anytime soon. For one, (speaking as an American) unions are sneered at as a waste of resources by your average citizen. This leads to the second problem: there will always be a pretty decent sized group who do not believe in unions, meaning companies will have a choice in who to hire. It's usually not in a corporation's best interest to hire a unionized worker, at least not a corporation which view…

Call it a "guild" and everyone will join!

Re: Web Development as a career – the realities

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> Some people love to cook in their spare time. Would these people be as enthusiastic about cooking if they were doing it for 40+ hours a week every week and there was a superior telling them what and how to cook? > The honest answer for most people is no! I find this weird. I advertised for calculator program requests in high school because I wanted someone to tell me what to code. (There were no takers. One guy wan…

You can literally work on software for any industry, company or government in the world. I would think you would have some sort of preference. At the least you should be interested enough in the place your are interviewing at to find out what they do and and then tell them you are interested in working on that. Otherwise you just come off as a mercenary or desperate.

> Otherwise you just come off as a mercenary

You are a mercenary. That's the idea of a job. You do something, they pay you.

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