<story><title>How to Escape from Immoral Mazes</title><url>https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2020/01/16/how-escape-from-immoral-mazes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fctorial</author><text>I thought older people are more valuable since they have more experience. There isn&amp;#x27;t much physical difference between 20, 40 and 55 year old people unless something like alzheimer kicks in, especially in our field where the job includes reading stuff and pressing button.</text></item><item><author>FZ1</author><text>&amp;gt; Young people starting out in the labor market often have The Fear that they will never find a job or never find a good job or another good job.&lt;p&gt;Young people fear it.  Older people know it.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Quit.&lt;p&gt;Not everyone is a 20-something silicon valley kid with companies falling all over themselves to throw money at them.&lt;p&gt;Hiring is effectively broken these days - especially in the software world.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re not from a top-flight university, maybe a little older, or in any other way less flashy&amp;#x2F;attractive in the job market, it can take months or sometimes years to get decent job interviews.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t just walk away from a decent income because idealism.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UncleOxidant</author><text>LoL, wait till you hit 50. I hope it doesn&amp;#x27;t come as too much of a shock. Do what you can to save up as much money as you possibly can in your 20s, 30s and 40s because it becomes a lot harder to find gigs when you hit 50 (even mid 40s in many cases).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in my mid-50s. Took me 9 months to find a gig a couple years ago when I was looking. Now to be completely honest that&amp;#x27;s also because I can afford to be pretty picky at this point and I was only applying for stuff that looked really interesting. And if it looked like there was just too much bullshit I wasn&amp;#x27;t interested. When you hit your 50s you&amp;#x27;ve seen a lot of bullshit in your time and can smell it a mile away. So yeah, it works both ways. There&amp;#x27;s definitely ageism, but many of us who are aged have saved up enough so we are also picky about what we want to take.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m currently between gigs again (previous contract may come back when they get funding so I&amp;#x27;m kind of biding my time because that was a good place to work and good places to work can be hard to find). I don&amp;#x27;t want to call it quits and retire just yet, but I&amp;#x27;m finding less and less that&amp;#x27;s non-bullshit out there these days. And the way interviewing is done these days... well, let&amp;#x27;s just say it makes me want to retire. I like the work, but I hate the interviewing.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to Escape from Immoral Mazes</title><url>https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2020/01/16/how-escape-from-immoral-mazes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fctorial</author><text>I thought older people are more valuable since they have more experience. There isn&amp;#x27;t much physical difference between 20, 40 and 55 year old people unless something like alzheimer kicks in, especially in our field where the job includes reading stuff and pressing button.</text></item><item><author>FZ1</author><text>&amp;gt; Young people starting out in the labor market often have The Fear that they will never find a job or never find a good job or another good job.&lt;p&gt;Young people fear it.  Older people know it.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Quit.&lt;p&gt;Not everyone is a 20-something silicon valley kid with companies falling all over themselves to throw money at them.&lt;p&gt;Hiring is effectively broken these days - especially in the software world.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re not from a top-flight university, maybe a little older, or in any other way less flashy&amp;#x2F;attractive in the job market, it can take months or sometimes years to get decent job interviews.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t just walk away from a decent income because idealism.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eli</author><text>That logically makes sense, but the reality is agism is a huge problem in tech hiring.</text></comment>