Re: Re: Lesson learned
  By: Sean Dennis to Arelor on Sat Jun 05 2021 10:21 am

 > -=> Arelor wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-
 > 
 >  Ar> I tried applying for a job at big IT because I wanted to learn from
 >  Ar> within the indutry, instead of
 >  Ar> self-learning from second-hand books and by trying to hack solutions
together without any
 >  Ar> assitence. Nowadays I don't think I would be living better had I gotten
the job.
 > 
 > I've had the pleasure of working for IT when they'd just hire you off the
street if you showed a
 > modicum of knowledge about computers and paid pretty well to do so.  Now, at
my age, my knowledg
 > and age are considered
 > liabilities and I have been passed over for younger, less knowledgeable
 > people who don't know what they're worth.
 > 
 > Since I am disabled and can no longer work, I can keep learning and using my
skills for my own
 > needs though I still do a paying side job now and again.
 > 
 > Later,
 > Sean
 > 
 > ... If we can't fix it, it ain't broke.

HAHA, recruitment techniques in big tech are weird.

Nominally, I see a mix of job offers that belongs to one of two categories:
either they demand
impossible qualitications (3 years of experience with tech that has been aroudn
for 1), or they get
people with zero training and promise to train you on the go, for close to no
pay.

HP Printing is doing a lot of the later. The issue with that is that once you
train people, they
leave your shitty firm :-) IN the case of HP Printing, there are deeper issues
involved. I have
known of people leaving HP for firms that paid *less*.

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