Re: [Rails] Looking for some input on career advancement w/ Rails

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Phoenix Rising <polarisrising@gmail.com> wrote:

> On the first point, am I being too paranoid about working for start-
> ups?  My biggest fear, career-wise, is to go to work one morning and
> find the stereotypical 2001 nightmare scenario where the office is
> shut down, locked up, nobody has a job and the CEO is running off with
> a couple hundred grand in investment cash, leaving all the employees
> screwed.

Wow, that's negative. Sure, in some cases people didn't get paid for
their last couple of weeks work which is unfortunate, but "screwed"?

If you got paid while you were there and learned a lot, what's the big
deal? You could as easily come to work at BigCo one day to find out
your division was being shut down and poof! there goes that job.

How does that feel different? Having gone through both scenarios,
I'd say: not at all. Next step in each case: go find some other work.

And personally, assuming I wanted a "job", I would far rather be part
of a small team at a startup than Anonymous Cog # 389976 at BigCo.

YMMV :-)
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twitter: @hassan

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