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| Apr 23, 2016 at 10:49 | comment | added | Darius.V | The employers have a lot to choose from? This does not look like being reality in my area at least and I believe in many cities its also the same. So that makes it interesting, why its hard to get such. If it was easy for them to get a programmer, then there would not be so many job advertisements and head hunting. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 0:11 | comment | added | dgatwood | @jkh: Many people are passionate about programming and also passionate about other things, like music, art, theater, writing, etc. The more artistic someone is, the more interests he/she will have, and the harder it will be for him/her to spend most of his/her usable waking hours doing only one thing. By limiting yourself to full-time employees, you miss many of the most creative, artistic people. Or, by tying them down to only one thing, they come to resent programming instead of being passionate about it. Either way, the full-time-only culture represents a loss for the entire industry. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 3:35 | comment | added | oceanus | @JasonMcVetta is exactly right. Passion doesn't matter. It just makes you a better slave. A job is a contract where you trade time/code for money. If an employee is putting consideration to how much he likes the company, his co-workers, his boss, etc., he is already a loser. The employer is within his right to and in many respects should be using stereotypes to judge candidates. When you have many candidates and limited information, that's the best you can do. On the other side, if I am highly skilled in producing the code you want, you're better off hiring me than someone who sucks. | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 8:13 | comment | added | Jason McVetta | "imagine your next restaurant meal: Who do you want to make it?" Someone who is good at cooking. Couldn't care less if they have passion & enthusiasm, so long as they have skill. | |
| Feb 10, 2015 at 2:49 | comment | added | Martin Capodici | I suspect there are a lot of programmers who are deeply into it, but not deeply into losing so many hours to crud servitude that they could be spending on really interesting stuff. | |
| Nov 27, 2011 at 2:35 | comment | added | jkh | @Mikle Stereotype or not, how it looks from the perspective of the employer is all that really matters here since you're still competing in the workplace against people who don't have that stipulation. Perhaps in 20 years or so, the notion of a fixed work week will be dead and you'll have simply been ahead of your time. :) | |
| Nov 26, 2011 at 20:32 | comment | added | Mikle | @jkh and nikie - from the perspective of the employer this may look like that, but that's just a stigma or a stereotype. I can be just as productive, caring and professional 3 days a week as 5. | |
| Nov 25, 2011 at 19:43 | comment | added | nikie | "you're essentially telling a prospective employer that you're just not that into it" +1. That's exactly the point. | |
| S Nov 25, 2011 at 18:56 | history | answered | jkh | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
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