Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw
by FungalRaincloud on Friday April 14, 2017 @11:28AM
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I mean, it's plausible that we could make enough to get by doing work that isn't fulfilling. Building websites for local churches, for example, can pay well enough to at least keep the lights on, and there's plenty of that sort of work. Trouble is, it can be career killing to be out of the game for a few months, especially if web dev is not what you want to be doing.
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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw
by ericd on Friday April 14, 2017 @11:36AM
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Being out of work for a few months isn't career killing. There may be some correlation, but it's not causal - I know plenty of people who've chosen not to work for a few months that I'd hire in a heartbeat. They do generally work on interesting projects, though.
Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw
by FungalRaincloud on Friday April 14, 2017 @02:01PM
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It's not the time off, but rather, how you fill that time off that I am arguing is career stunting. If you have to work on uninteresting, non-career aiding work for a few months to make ends meet, you aren't likely to be working on interesting projects during that time.
e: changed killing to stunting, because I do believe that it is recoverable.
Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw
by ericd on Friday April 14, 2017 @11:59PM
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I don't think it's that dire, but I guess interviewing afterwards could be trickier. If you were still a good programmer after three months, I think you'd be just fine. I just took six months off to travel the world, I'm not worried.