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Content: use HTML Edit Content <h1 style="text-align: center;">the unemployable programmer</h1> <h2>[WHAT]</h2> <ol> <li>] by anonymous @pen.io - Story of how 1 programmer went from "writing little programs" to discovering that programmers are "a dime a dozen" and knowing how to write programs wasn't enough in today's world,</li> </ol> <h2>[WHY]</h2> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;</li> </ol> <h2>[WHERE]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li> <ol> <li>] <a href="http://unemployable.pen.io/" target="_blank">http://unemployable.pen.io/</a>&nbsp;</li> </ol></ol> <h2>[WHEN]</h2> <ol> <li>] 2015-08-03</li> </ol> <h2>[EXAMPLE - auto summary by smmry.com]</h2> <ol> <li>] Little programs, mostly games, but also weird things like my own text editor, some weird math-y things, small programs that generated graphics procedurally, and a single-user chat bot.</li> <li>] The most profound changes silently happened to the world while I was obliviously pissing my life away until my early forties: knowing how to write programs is no longer enough to make a living.</li> <li>] Job interviews in programming are multi-staged and resource-draining on the applicant, but I went in with vague optimism.</li> <li>] Today, there are literally hundreds of applicants even for the shitty jobs in programming.</li> <li>] After wasting hours on talking to HR people, filling out IQ tests from questionable self-help websites, going through programming challenges, and enduring passive-aggressive phone interviews with technical people, they suddenly realize.</li> <li>] Programmers are dime-a-dozen now, and you might suddenly find yourself out on the street, unable to get back on your feet.</li> <li>] I might work out, I might not, but honestly the chances are not really different if you hire anyone else - I would argue that the outcome of hiring an Unemployable Programmer might in fact be better overall, because we're motivated and we get stuff done - as opposed to the hipster "Rockstar" programmer we actually do eat and breathe code.</li> </ol> <h2>[HOW-TO]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[REFERENCE]</h2> <ol> <li>] SRC = hn, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9994899" target="_blank">comments</a>(500+)</li> </ol> <div> <h2>[RELATED]</h2> <div><ol> <li>] # 5347 -&nbsp;<a href="/view/article?id=5347" target="_blank">unemployable</a>&nbsp;- &nbsp;[collection] by Don Sagrott, founder @sospep.com - a collection of articles on the state of the employment market for older developers. "Ageism" and other issues facing older developers in today's technology industry.</li> </ol></div> </div> <h1 style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</h1>