Re:10% unemployment yet every startup in NYC struggling to hire
by evgen on Monday December 13, 2010 @12:25AM
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I would also be willing to bet that the skills being learned during this training period are far less portable than most coding skills. If your startup teaches you how to crank out a crud RoR app in six months you can probably walk out the door at that point and get a 25% salary bump from another startup that now does not need to spend six months training you. If you learn the details of your specific cog at Lockheed in six months you are not going to be able to go to General Dynamics and apply the same skills as soon as you walk in the door.
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Re:10% unemployment yet every startup in NYC struggling to hire
by krschultz on Monday December 13, 2010 @01:08PM
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That is completely true. It only gets worse the longer you stay in one group. After 20 years of doing 1 little piece of a giant puzzle (of which there is only one and there are no competitors), can you really go anywhere else and be anything other than entry level? And how do you give up $120k for $60k as an entry level guy elsewhere even though after 20 years you should be making $180k.
It is a giant trap for those that aren't aware of it from day 1.