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A comment on Ask HN: Senior developers, what would you tell a younger you?.

Re:Ask HN: Senior developers, what would you tell a younger ... by NotThe1Pct on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @11:42PM (#13173899)
DO NOT TALK TO RECRUITERS.

They hate you because you have skills and they usually failed in their careers (or have a liberal arts degree, which is even worse).

They will record and make public whatever you told in private.

They will blanket spam your CV to every corner of the world.

They will lie to you to make you sign it.

They will make you feel worthless so you can accept a lower package.

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Re:Ask HN: Senior developers, what would you tell a younger ... by teekno on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @12:31AM (#13174084)
As a software engineer, I would argue that my liberal arts education is one of my greatest assets.
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Re:Ask HN: Senior developers, what would you tell a younger ... by NotThe1Pct on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @08:25PM (#13181524)
I find that refreshing. But for 50% of liberal arts majors, under and unemployment is a hard reality.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/53-of-re...

The problem is not intrinsically the content of the degrees but the fact that there is probably 2x as much graduates being thrown in the market than there are jobs.

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