Or - those who can, contract.
Those who can't, become desk mushrooms wherever anybody will take them.
If you could contract for a living, you would. In the human ecosystem, permanents as a rule are what is left in the basket when the good puppies have all been taken.
Not really Cleve, being in a bigger structure allows you to work on more ambitious projects with brilliant people, with tight NDAs, and to have your code in millions of devices world wide, or hundreds of thousands of games.
This said, I respect your entrepreneurship.
Note trouble in understanding what has been said. This guy is a permanent.
Again, the overwhelming research conducted over the past 100 years indicates that what you are saying is your vanity talking.
The facts don't support this conclusion. The facts say something completely different.
There is what you need to believe in order to support your vanity and go on living. The facts say that is a lie. There is no evidence to support it whatsoever.
The facts say you are a permanent because you are not bright enough to contract. The facts say that your company is likely structured such that they are more interested in placeholders than performance. This is the way the real world works.
In your private fantasy world, you are the best and brightest. The facts say you are the worst and the least and your company employs you because you are what is left over when the good puppies have already been taken.
Sorry but that is apparently the way the entire planet works. When your company is desperate enough for real results, they will turn to somebody like me. Until then they employ you in what amounts to a human bookmark.
If corporations were good at hiring the best and brightest we would not be in a worldwide depression.
There are the John Sculleys of the world, who are a legend in their own mind. Then there is the genuine article, like Steven Jobs. People like Jobs are outnumbered by the Sculleys a million to 1.
In regards to me, remember, everything is relative. It is not that I am the world's greatest programmer. It is that compared to you I am the world's greatest programmer. I am certain that of the genuine programmers in the world, 50% of them are better coders than I am. As for the 90% charlatans who are not really coders at all, they just play these roles at their day jobs, I would be infinitely superior to all of those guys including you. You literally don't even know what you don't know. It is obvious that anyone who thinks the Dinkumware code has EVER been stable or reliable in the 16 YEARS that M$ has had to fix it is trying to preserve their sanity, somewhat unsuccessfully. STLPort and Boost have been the only stable collection classes for C++ in the past 16 years.
