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I went for remote (freelance) jobs; age isn't a factor unless they're really into the "we're hip" thing. You play little gigs into longer gigs by outperforming. To me, anything beats the commute.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I agree with you. 
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Edward Aymami wrote: I am looking for a steady job for the next 10 years. The average programmer/developer switches jobs every 4 years.
I've never been a job hopper - I tend to grow roots and stay wherever I am. That being said, I've stayed at my first two jobs, I believe, roughly 6 years each - both companies were eventually acquired by bigger fish and shortly thereafter (after some "transition" period) ended up shutting down our local office (both times). I'm currently on my next job after that (still only the third of my entire career), after 15 years, and while retirement is on my mind (though it still seems distant), I don't see myself looking for anything else in the meantime.
I would not want to work with job hoppers.
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Too true. I have been working for myself since 1983 and have had several partners. I have been working alone since 2003.
Having to shut down and find a job due to a lack of ability to compete with larger firms. 
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1. How do they know your age?
2. How do they know you're not a "big" firm?
I used to "job hop" - never spent longer than 30 months in any one job. Then I found an employer I really got on well with - myself! Been working for myself for 27 years now - and during that time have had contracts lasting 5 - 7 years (usually part-time, running concurrently with others). When going for work, there's no reason for a client to find out how old I am. I put that I have a degree in such-and-such from so-and-so, but no need to put a date. It's not relevant. I list contracts that are relevant to what I'm going for (either technically, or industry, or role) and explain how I gave great value to a client. That "value add" is equally relevant whether it happened last year or 20 years ago. I pick and choose which assignments I list, and don't even necessarily give them in the "right" sequence. Totally truthful, totally tailored to illustrate why the potential client needs me.
I'm the "Principal Consultant" for my company, they have no need to know there are zero "junior consultants", accountants, marketing people or cleaners. That's not who they're hiring - they're hiring me and the skills that they need. Have multiple email addresses: sales@..., support@... as well as Eddie@... All route to same inbox but it helps you prioritise your email. They'll just be impressed that they're talking with the head honcho. Again, I'm not hiding anything, but it's simply irrelevant. Go get ISO9001 certified - it's really not that hard once you get the concepts. Have that on your letterhead / business card / website and they'll not believe that you're a one-man band.
If / when they actually get to meet you, they'll be even more impressed, because you'll have rocked their expectations
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I know you want a steady job, but have you considered consultant work? At least then you can work as you desire, especially if you decide to retire at some point. You could try Upwork, which takes a cut but guarantees payment.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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Thanks. I have been trying that to, but not the search firms that want me to pay upfront. I will certainly give it a try now.
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It's true.
I clash with HR on things like this quite often.
For us, it's because HR doesn't know anything about technical skills we require.. so they pick profiles based on overly simplistic criteria instead. Age, distance, keywords they recognize in the resume.. stuff like that.
It's a retarded system, all in all.
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I could not agree with you more!
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TL;DR.
Not even your sig.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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More paragraphs.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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May i suggest you use the LineBreaksRequired edit constraint ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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While I don't code in C++ and have no idea what your bug is or how you fixed it - I am nevertheless glad that you fixed it.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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[^] i tried the beta version for 90 days: it told me i was about to commit suicide so many times per day i might as well have been dead. i tried to contact the developers, but, to send them feedback, i had to submit a form proving i was alive.
with those features, i bet it will go viral.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Life is just a slow suicide. 
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but, with enough deaths by strangulation, you begin to get the hang of it.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Every time you opened my Sound of the Week the app started beeping? 
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Touché !
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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It's a bloody algorithm, not even an AI.
Did you search anything similar on bing or google?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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no, i didn't search: i was too afraid the links that would turn up would give me suicidal tendencies, and, i'm still learning the ropes on asphyxiation techniques.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Then how did you find the app?
I can predict a lot - like the return of Santa Claus.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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click the link
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I only use mine for making and receiving calls and texts,
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"The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for experiments with entangled photons."
i sincerely congratulate them !
Anyone who has been through 20 years of using Windows, .NET, and C#, WinForms, etc., knows about entanglement, about slogging through fossils of COM, and swamps where encrusted mats of self-referential DLL's fester like primordial algae. Where a click on a Control means half-dead, here, and half-alive, there. About betas and RC's that are as buggy as roach hotel.
Am i complaining ? No, it's been a wonderful roller-coaster ride, and the current facilities are as good as or better than what the Xerox Alto, and Star, in combination with SmallTalk, and SAIL [^], demonstrated was possible in the 1960's at Xerox PARC.
i'd say the current .Cat is more half-purr than half-hiss.
cheers, bill
p.s. Chiang Mai flood-wall breached, 4 inches of slow moving water in the street outside my house [^]. Days of more rain predicted.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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