[austin-cheney]

I used to believe this too. It’s completely true, but only a half truth.

It doesn’t matter how awesome you are, because in most cases employers are viewing the world as a bell curve and targeting the large population in the center. Being supremely awesome in your skills and capabilities moves you far away from the center of the bell curve.

Most employers realize many of the people in that swollen center seriously lack the fundamentals and adapt the environment accordingly, such as lowering barriers of entry and lowering minimally acceptable quality criteria. That is not the environment a top skilled developer will strive in.

My goal moving forward is to work in jobs with higher barriers of entry, preferably some manner of institutional barriers.