| > You need to tailor your CV to the job you're applying to and leave almost everything else out. I recently read an article about modern job application evaluation. The author said that if it takes more than 10 seconds to get a sense of who you are, your CV will get tossed. That means one-page CV's with ten bullet points and large type (or something like that). Maybe we are in the jobs-as-elevator-pitches era? Say enough to make them interested and fill-in details when they call you. To answer your other questions. Mid-level programming would probably not be a good fit for me. A job has to be enough of an intellectual challenge to make it interesting. Without that people are just miserable. So, yeah, senior engineer or above is likely the right fit. That said, not wanting to sit idle, I started a new self-funded tech business. It's a physical product. I did all of the engineering: electrical, mechanical, ARM firmware, desktop application, manufacturing, testing, etc. Sold the product, booked and delivered a first sale ($175K). While that's good, I just can't take the kinds of risks I took back twenty years ago. I need to raise capital to make this go beyond this point. I am looking for additional sales as a way to keep incremental growth going. The VC landscape today seems difficult. Also, it feels like most investors are far more interested in pure software startups and, of course, a bunch of young founders rather than a single 60-year-old. So, again, I'm on my own. I am not saying any of this to whine. You have to take the good, the bad and the ugly. That's life. And I am perfectly fine with it. Just need to figure out what's next. Someone asked why I don't retire. I have seen way too many people rapidly deteriorate physically and mentally from the idleness retirement can bring. Not interested. If my original post conveys anything it should be that I don't really sit around doing nothing for very long. I don't do "idle" very well. Then there's the reality of a business failure in 2010 (the economic implosion from 2008 took us out) that really hurt. Which means I have to work. Other than my home and reasonable savings, we have no retirement accounts or pensions. It's interesting how people assume that everyone reaches 60 with 401k's and a path to idle retirement. Lots of people don't. I think I can say this is --sadly-- far more common among entrepreneurs. |