Stop Sabotaging Your Career with Short Stints
How about people stop pulling the ladder up behind them when they reach management levels of “success”?<p>My career has been long stints of at least a decade. Every company has failed. One failed because the main source of income was providing local sales and support for a software product, but the company owner was collecting licensing fees and not passing them on to the licensor until we needed to ask for help. This came undone when one day our client rang the supplier directly only to find that their licence had expired three years ago. We lost that gig, which meant about 60% of the income evaporated overnight.<p>How do I as a working stuff differentiate between the sleazy arseholes who are shady management like this guy, and the sleazy arseholes who are the ruthless successful types who will actually build successful companies?<p>Who do I give my “long stint” loyalty to? I am 50 so I only have two more long stints in me and nobody is hiring 50yo software engineers with a broad exposure to languages and environments.<p>Save the gospel sermons. Acknowledge that you got a good innings and none of it was due to you being innately virtuous as a human being.