Now everyone is getting a stronger reminder of the danger of correlated failure than even the dotcom bust, because back then people could bail out into the boring business world where all of the companies who’d been failing to hire web developers were finally able to get sufficient numbers but now it’s different because companies are much further along their digital transitions and since the market risk is intentionally created by the President there aren’t any safe sectors.
No shade on military folks, though I don’t remember the last worthwhile thing the US military did, maybe the Spanish American war?
But anyway, I have met precisely 0 high end developers with a military background. If you are a person with that sort of brain, military just does not really make any sense for you to do. It’s way too much work for way too little money and you are going to be surrounded by people who can’t understand what you are thinking at all.
Oh I have met a few from countries with compulsory military service, but I don’t count that since they didn’t have a choice.
I feel like people forgot the insane hiring spree everyone went on after 2020. That didn’t seem sustainable at the time, and it wasn’t. Surprise?
Am I in a weird bubble? Are there actually a lot of Iraq veterans in Silicon Valley?
y-curious•9mo ago
You have my permission to skip this one.