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Re:What happened to all the female developers? by LiveTheDream on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @12:40PM (#2808172)
I might be completely misinterpreting sarcasm on the first points. Job insecurity in high tech? Absolutely not - the high tech industry is desperately trying to hire good people. Also, long hours are not a requirement. Lots of developers in startups or the game industry work long hours, but there are plenty of other positions (e.g. DoD sort of work) that is low stress 9-5. Medical work is decidedly not 9-5.
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Re:What happened to all the female developers? by prodigal_erik on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @04:01PM (#2809235)
I urge you not to plan on such a hot market for software developers forever. Anyone who was around when the first wave of dot-coms laid everyone off around 2001 knows how quickly and severely the well can run dry.
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Re:What happened to all the female developers? by gaius on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @12:41PM (#2808179)
Well, yes and no. I've been laid off twice from high tech firms. Both times I found a (better!) job within a couple of weeks, but if you want a stable career, this is not the industry for you.
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Re:What happened to all the female developers? by Sandman on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @01:40PM (#2808500)
if you want a stable career, this is not the industry for you.

Well, yes and no :). Depends on where you work. If you work at a tech company then yeah, that's probably not the most secure workplace, but I work at a bank, and the only way you're ever going to get fired from there is if you're a really, really crappy worker, or if you screw up big time.

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Re:What happened to all the female developers? by kragen on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @07:09PM (#2809887)
I met a bank programmer a couple of years ago. He was driving a taxi. Apparently when his bank got bought by another bank, they laid off the whole IT department.
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Re:What happened to all the female developers? by dasil003 on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @02:19PM (#2808701)
Plus you have the added security that if the brass really fucks things up the government is there to pick up the slack (at least in the U.S.).
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Re:What happened to all the female developers? by akronim on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @01:30AM (#2810885)
If you work at a bank there's a good chance you'll next laid off en masse as soon when there's a really bad year.
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Re:What happened to all the female developers? by Sandman on Thursday July 28, 2011 @06:11PM (#2819191)
Well, as far as my bank is concerned, nobody got laid off during the recent recession (I don't work in the US, mind you). There was just a hiring freeze and smaller bonuses at the end of the year. We really weren't hit that hard.
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