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by non-entity 2263 days ago
Many people I know like this found a stable job in government or a large corporation and for the most part states put there. The may have had a few other jobs, but like you mention it's all enterprise stuff which moves slow enough.

They also have tend to have different motivations, whether that be a family or unrelated hobbies.

Tbh sometimes I envy people like this and sometimes I dont.

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I’m kind of like this... been at current employer around 8 years.

Motivation: very strictly 9-5 which is great for my toddler kids and personal side interests and being able to keep current even if employer is boring tech. Healthy compensation means I will be mortgage free in 2 years.

Profitable large company that will easily weather the coming storms (have always been tight with budgets), and not worried about layoffs since in growing + future investment part of company.

If it all goes to shit, once I own my house outright I don’t care, since wife owns a recession proof revenue producing business on which we can survive if I need to retool (can’t survive on only that while we have a mortgage payment on solely that income tho).

Many reasons for something like this.

That’s fine until the large corporation lays them off, they find their skillset is not marketable and then they start whining about “ageism”. (I’m in my mid 40’s and I’m still a developer FWIW)