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Re:Startups, please stop calling it your 'Careers' page by rfnslyr on Friday December 20, 2013 @10:52AM (#6941954)
We've become so comfortable that we obsess over the title of a web page on some random startups website.

Absolutely incredible.

Re:Startups, please stop calling it your 'Careers' page by rmcfeeley on Friday December 20, 2013 @11:21AM (#6942149)
Thanks for the feedback - though I'd hardly describe myself as comfortable ;)

Quite the opposite actually - the main point here, and perhaps I could do a better job of getting that across, is that the traditional concept of a "career" as a series of deliberate, fairly obvious steps is eroding (if not entirely gone), but the word, and its connotations, remains.

More of a nit-picky linguistic thing perhaps, but psychology & first impressions are important here, and I get suspicious whenever I see what looks like folks labeling something relating to other peoples lives with a loaded term without consideration of its implications.

Stay uncomfortable - R