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Developers—the good ones—don't want to work for you. They want to work for a cause.

Agree strongly. I – like most of us – am approached by recruiters every single day who throw around buzz words like "disrupt" and "hacker" and (worst off all) "rockstar." None of that matters to me, though. The two most important things to me are 1) that I'm going to be happy at the end of the day, and 2) that my company is doing good. And I don't mean doing well, I mean doing good" – contributing in a positive way. I'm older, though (30).

Of course I want to improve my skill set and work with new/cool/innovative technologies, but I'm not going to do it for a company that I don't care about, or at the cost of my personal wellbeing.




Wow is 30 older? I'm 29, so that means I'm older too? I thought I was just a regular age.


Wow. 46, and trying to remember where I left my cane...


52. Got a rockin' cane. Don't remember where I got it from. Damn Alzheimer's...


I added that because I was providing a counter-point of sorts to michaelochurch's comment below, and he noted that he was "older" at 30.




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