Programming Until Retirement? 660
DataDragon asks: "Here's the situation- I'm a now 30something computer programmer in Silicon Valley working for one of the local billion+ dollar tech companies. I'm unhappy with my present job, but am thankful that I've got one. Although I pride myself on having written over a million lines of code in my career, with nearly 15 commercial software products under my belt (8 of them were my own concepts from start-to-finish). I've had carpal tunnel for 6 years now, my skillset looks like it came from a 3 year old magazine, and I didn't make good on stock options. Since settling down in a quiet place somewhere and having a family sounds like a great idea to myself and my bride-to-be, I was wondering: instead of all the buzz I always get like Google's 'Do you <insert technology task> in your sleep?' job opportunities I've read about, are there any employers that would rather have a person who: wants to put in an honest day's work; get to know the job and the people well; and a desire to ultimately be a mentor for the company processes, instead of a here-today-gone-tomorrow programmer, who is interested in actually working there until retirement age?"
Thank you for your service (Score:5, Funny)
Oblig. Logan's Run quip here: (Score:5, Funny)
Yes plenty of those employees (Score:5, Funny)
Touting for work. (Score:3, Funny)
In short, your looking for work and you thought
Well that's okay, good luck to you.
By the way, I'm very self-motivated, a genius in C++ and Python and I could probably squeeze the odd small or non-urgent project in....
Raise the H1-B quotas again! (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah (Score:4, Funny)
Words of Wisdom (Score:2, Funny)
I would suggest crack as your first product.
Re:FFS! (Score:5, Funny)
Especially after you've been married for a few years.
Failed Interview (Score:3, Funny)
-1 Arrogant.
Re:Carpal Tunnel? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Do what you enjoy (Score:3, Funny)
what luck! (Score:5, Funny)