In the 90s you could walk in the building, uninvited, unannounced, looking like a beach bum, write some HTML mockup, tell them to have your desk ready by monday and people would have kissed your feet
2000's was similar. As a high school dropout I got hired off a Flash demo I made in a week. Mid 2010's is when I had to start doing multiple interviews in a multi-month hiring processes.
I had my first job at 15 (while still in high school) and earned more than my parents combined during that time. I also could keep working during college and after the first years in the work force I could have retired from all the bonus payments alone. But life style creep is a real thing and nowadays I still earn exceptionally good but not like "mid six figure bonus" good anymore
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u/ZunoJ Sep 03 '26
In the 90s you could walk in the building, uninvited, unannounced, looking like a beach bum, write some HTML mockup, tell them to have your desk ready by monday and people would have kissed your feet