re: #272 prononymous

Yeah, I don’t really put much weight on them. It is just something to show an interviewer if they don’t understand that >20 years troubleshooting computer issues, programming computers, etc blows away a piece of paper.

But I got out of the computer industry precisely because everyone sees it as the next big market and jumped in with degrees, etc. I’m not good at selling myself and there is much higher competition for every position. It is an employers market and the workers are getting hosed in IT, IMO.

In some ways, I think things are getting better for the employee, at least in the programming field. My understanding is that the demand for coders is starting to actually strain the available numbers, although some of that may be related to the fact that, quite honestly, coding isn’t for most people. Not that they can’t do it and do it well, but that most people really probably don’t want to do it as a career.