The road to success is paved with rejection letters

Re:The road to success is paved with rejection letters by krisoft on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @03:47PM (#30519779)

That assumes two things:

- there is an ordering between jobs

- one’s goal is to find the “highest” according to that ordering

I don’t think that either of those is true in my value system.

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Re:The road to success is paved with rejection letters by tkot on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @04:06AM (#30525357)

I think it's a pretty reasonable assumption, even if the ordering is strictly personal (some people would take a job with better work-life balance instead of the better paying one, some would make a different choice, same thing with technology stacks etc.).

The second premise also seems to be true, though I would phrase it in a descriptive rather than prescriptive manners - the choices you make regarding job offers reveal your preferences ("the ordering of jobs").

Having no "job ordering" would result in people taking jobs based on a coin flip, wouldn't it?

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Re:The road to success is paved with rejection letters by oreally on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @10:07PM (#30523166)

Yea the SWE ego stroking shows quite a bit in anonymous settings. It's like they think they're doing valuable work only in the FAANGs.

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Re:The road to success is paved with rejection letters by chrisseaton on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @08:25PM (#30609916)

1) I'm not anonymous am I - my user name is my real name.

2) I'm not at a FAANG.

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Re:The road to success is paved with rejection letters by ghaff on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @04:59PM (#30520628)

In fairness, for a lot of people, the ordering is "Who will pay me the most?"

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