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Re:How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time by nine_k on Saturday October 17, 2020 @05:10PM (#24813401)
I can only quote the Red Queen: "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."

One needs to stay competent, if not competitive, to stay employable, even for moderately advanced and moderately-paid positions. There's no chance to learn the craft and expect it to stay the same for a lifetime.

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Re:How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time by Barrin92 on Saturday October 17, 2020 @08:17PM (#24814592)
>One needs to stay competent, if not competitive, to stay employable

if you are reasonably competent you can get a boring coding job at a large firm that pays probably twice the average national salary.

Software development pays so well compared to other sectors and is so starved for workers pretty much always, and unemployment is basically nonexistent, I think like the author you might confuse "working hat hip startup XY and making 200k" with being employable and living comfortably

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