Originally posted by LondonManc
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Originally posted by uk contractor View PostThat as well keep it to 3-4 pages max anything else will be binned unless its a very technical role!Comment
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Originally posted by fool View PostI thought everyone knew it was 2 pages max? ;p"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...Comment
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Some re-assuring posts here so thanks. Ageism shouldn't matter as much contracting is what I'm getting here.
(Still sucks hitting 40 though.)Comment
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Originally posted by expat View PostI am still contracting as a developer, and I'm 64. As SO says, there were not many when I started so there are damn few my age who have been devs all their lives.Comment
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Originally posted by unixman View Post...and of course you started programming for leisure at the age of 13. At home. Nobody under 30 did that.
...quite possibly you stayed up all night programming for fun on a couple of occasions...
...as well as doing programming at school in your Computer Studies O level class...
Did you use punch cards as well?"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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In my first job (permie, 22), I shared an office with John, a contractor aged about, oh maybe 55. He seemed fine, was an experienced Unix admin. Quiet guy, efficient and (perhaps due to his age) good at handling people diplomatically. No worries.Comment
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Originally posted by MrMarkyMark View PostComment
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Originally posted by unixman View PostO levels (Ordinary and Advanced) and CSEs were a rigorous form examination which once existed, before everybody started copying their "course work" off Google and exams were replaced by just giving everybody a massive candy floss..
The Chunt of Chunts.Comment
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