A lot of tech people, particularly more junior folks, are looking for jobs right now. A short but important note for them: newcomers should generally ignore career advice from people who've been in the field longer than 10 or 15 years.
The way the industry treats us is so dramatically different from the way it treats newcomers that most advice is just flat out wrong.
https://jacobian.org/2025/mar/13/beware-advice-from-old-heads/
And the flip side of this:
If you're an old head, *resist* the urge to think your own career advancement is any use as an example for young people today.
We came up in this business in a *majorly* different employment environment. Employers today, recruiting for tech job positions, will treat young applicants in ways far worse than we ever had.
What worked for us back then will simply not work for today's environment.
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