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Re:IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Mi... by intelliderp on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:13AM (#19511827)
Do you have any objective comparison metric to prove you are really so far ahead of the others, and not behind them or somewhere in the middle range?
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Re:IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Mi... by scarface74 on Thursday March 28, 2019 @10:07AM (#19512288)
I never said I was "far ahead of others". The only thing I said is that I keep my skills current with the market, keep my resume up to date, and keep my network warm.

The objective measure that all that is true, is that I can reach out to my network and have multiple job offers in three weeks. It doesn't take a special snowflake to do that if you live in a major metropolitan area and you've done all of the above.

I'm definitely not still doing ASP.Net WebForms and VB.Net in 2019 trying to compete in a market where everyone wants the $cool_kids stack.

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