Yea, and I have been trying to do my part by not counting on the magic of the buzzword to get positions. But to be qualified for the jobs, refusing to work with those contract houses that want me to fudge my skills or level of experience with a specific technology. While I could probably pick up almost any tech in a few weeks or at most a couple of months, it isn’t fair to the hiring manager to pay me to learn if they don’t know that’s what they are doing.

I did about eight years as a manager and took many of my rules from Dilbert if PHM didn’t then try to avoid it if possible. But sometimes the system is inherently point-haired, so I returned to development rather than management about five years ago and haven’t looked back.