When I first left my job, I was insecure, and companies could have taken advantage of that.
No more.
To the "Mike" that sent me that wonderful little note:
I replied, then realized that you had used a honeypot email as the address, so I'll post what I wrote here. It would have gone to your email, otherwise. I would like to mention that I stand behind every post I make, and every email I send. I deleted my last anonymous account many moons ago.
> You still sound insecure.
:)
Probably. It's not your problem, though. It's mine. I am constantly working on that.
I will say that it was pretty devastating to get assaulted for my age. It totally rocked my world. I'm definitely still recovering from that, and I am still quite angry about it.
Thanks (really) for taking the time to look at my HN page and sending this. I regularly get attacked by some pretty savage folks (comes from the NPO work I do), so your note doesn't bother me at all.
Heck, maybe we have a lot in common. You know where to reach me. I'm a pretty decent chap.
This is my personal email.
Stay safe.
Not only does it cut off any way for you to grow, it makes it hard for companies to hire you over programmers willing to do anything. And I don’t mean that in a bad way but a realistic way - companies hire and want to keep you on but know you’re not going to be interested in any of their projects so the time investment has been wasted.