[AccessD] Marketing your coding skills

That has always been the way of things... Promotion always (or too much so)
wins out over substance.

Jim

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian
Andersen
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 11:36 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Marketing your coding skills

The only mistake is not living in Silicon Valley, where are third rate
programmer can pass himself off as a rock star programmer so long as he can
roll all the fancy hip tech terms off his tongue and looks cool like a
hipster.

- Hans


On 2013-04-10, at 6:00 PM, Doug Steele <dbdoug at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now I know why I'm not getting rich.  Here's a brief description of a guy
> who was so busy as a programmer that he hired an agent:
> 
> "Guvench has an eyebrow ring and rolls to our interview in a funky hat.
> He's a Harvard graduate who did a thesis on his study of monkey
> vocalizations and the hunt for precursors to human language. Later he got
> into coding and playing in bands."
> 
> All I did was get a degree in Math and take all the computer science
> courses I could find.  Silly me..
> Full article:
>
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-10/silicon-valley-goes-hollywoo
d-top-coders-can-now-get-agents
> 
> Doug
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