One thing's for sure, Gilad. If I needed to hire an excellent
motivational speaker who gives irresistible sales pitches, I'd go for
Steve Jobs. But failing that, I'll certainly ask for you. :)
On 02/09/2007, at 00:29, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Security guards are cogs. Excellence simply doesn't matter and so
it wont help you. CxO on the other hand are very rare. Excellence
is everything - you wont need go looking for a job, the head hunter
will come looking for you.
You failed to mention a crucial thing that get CxOs jobs -
connections. People know about them. They have a nice black book of
contacts from their previous jobs and military service which they
maintain. They have people who owe them favors. That's how you get
jobs in high positions, at least in this country.
There is another logical fallacy here - is rarity the result of being
part of an elite group of people, or a result of extinction? I must
tell you that I can't find many FORTRAN77 jobs in the newspapers,
either...
When I finished the military I could write applications on MacOS.
That was a rare skill. There was absolutely no demand for it. There
still isn't. At least not in Israel. Israel is not the place to be
exotic.
BUT, if you play your cards just right and take advantage of being
able to be an expert in Django before it's huge and everyone know
about it (and it will be) right from the beginning by being
involved in building both the frame work and the first commercial
users of it, you will have attained the position of not ever
needing to look for a job again - you'll simply have to choose from
the opportunities presented to you.
This is speculation. If I manage to hit the right seam of gold, I'd
find myself in a great position. However, if the seam I happen to
strike is a dry one, and turns out not to be in demand, what do you
suggest I do? Fall back on LAMP? Move back in with my mother and live
on her pension? The biggest gamble I've ever taken was 50 NIS for a
lottery ticket. Losing 50 NIS won't hurt me. Losing six months worth
of money and landing back in the LAMP dump is.
The market for interchangeable web site programmers is indeed
controlled by ASP.Net drones. If you plan to be an interchangeable
cog that should certainly be the technology to follow.
No, I have no intention of doing that, unless my rent is really at risk.
If, however, you want be in a position to get the jobs that
*aren't* listed in any paper or web site, to be bogged down by head
hunters calling very politely every six month on the clock just to
check in if you happen to fancy hearing about a new job opening and
being able to pick and choose jobs because you are a rare and
irreplaceable source of knowledge about a useful technology that is
used by only the few biggest corporations and most sophisticated
and cutting edge start-ups , then by all means do consider Django
and Python.
Um, you do remember that I said "I want to work normal hours". That
means both start-ups and huge companies are not exactly a tempter.
Anyway, I must say your message left me more depressed than
motivated. :(
Herouth
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