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by ken 2953 days ago
Software development positions, no -- but I'm not limiting myself to that. People (on both sides of the table) are way too locked into the mindset that people can only do what they've done in the past. I'm good at lots of kinds of jobs.

If someone wants to hire me but their software development position happens to be in an environment that we know I'll do poorly in, then let's talk about what else is available.

Learning new technologies quickly, being able to pick up details from context, dealing with imprecise or conflicting requests, working backwards from a problem to find the root cause, designing future-proof systems, working in a fast-paced environment? I can segue these skills into almost anything.

I don't want to be shoehorned into "$(lang) developer", or even "developer", especially if it means I have to work in an open floor plan. Nobody should want to hire me for that, either, because it's the worst environment for me to do that work.