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Originally Posted by PhuzzyGnu
Pick a stable company. Earn your wings. Earn your tenure. Later on with the right experience you can pick your company and the rewards are out there.
I'm not sure I agree so much with this last point. I picked a stable company, I earned my tenure, and I reached the point where nobody was going to screw with me no matter what I did, but then my company went tits up.
Now I'm at square one. The rookie. I don't mean squat, and I don't have squat for leverage over anything, and I'm at the bottom of the pile all over again, instead of top man on the yard.
Over here, I've got to outlast people who already have 20 years on me to get to the top again. OTOH, that's probably a good sign overall.
(I'll add that I never got any phone calls for what I'd consider the premium jobs around here. Ten years driving and eight of them incident-free didn't get me any job interviews.)