GeorgeSarkis

Intellectual property contracts are common in finance. I had a clause that, if enforced, would have prevented me to work for two years in the industry, while offering half my usual salary in the meantime. I think it's fair (doesn't hold you off forever and also doesn't starve you while you're out of the game). In my case, it wasn't enforced when I left (which is more bad news for me than good, since it just means I wasn't valuable enough :)

>> advertising workers themselves have drunk the Koolaid that used to only be peddled to consumers

Please don't blame the victim. The slaves have no choice, they have to dance like their masters require them to. The "choice" to quit their jobs simply doesn't exist since there are fewer and fewer jobs for more and more hungry and desperate poor (payed just to live to another paycheck, making sure they end up in the streets should they put up some resistance at the pressure to dance as they are told).

Lessons from adults who overcame difficult adulthoods: the word is "resilience".

What the heck do you mean by "Michaelness"? Michael O'Church-esness, the snowflake who used to rant here about how The World fails to reward his outstanding talent?

Getting a (new) job in IT is an exercise in futility if you don't know someone inside, so essentially there's not an interview but an invitation.

It's lower-status, more degrading and has worser odds than cold-call telemarketers trying to sell you some new credit card.

By the way, when a telemarketer tricks you into answering his call, you don't subject him to a 3-days intensive rectal exam ("homework") just for the remote possibility of getting a new credit card, which at the end you still don't buy anyways on some made-up pretense.

So developers agree to way worse level of abuse and degradation than the lowliest sales guy.

What a load of bollocks! £90k in finance with deep technical expertise is already in the 99% quantile for London.

Impressive. But I used machine painting as inspiration for physical learning. And next thing in line is using physical machinery as inspiration for painted learning!

>> Darius Foroux: "I’m an entrepreneur, author, and podcaster. I also research tools to build a better life, career, and business. Join my free newsletter if you want to get my latest articles delivered to your inbox."

Another collection of pseudointellectual predigested positive platitudes.