> A career in technology seemed like a natural and safe path after his service in the military
No shade on military folks, though I don’t remember the last worthwhile thing the US military did, maybe the Spanish American war?
But anyway, I have met precisely 0 high end developers with a military background. If you are a person with that sort of brain, military just does not really make any sense for you to do. It’s way too much work for way too little money and you are going to be surrounded by people who can’t understand what you are thinking at all.
Oh I have met a few from countries with compulsory military service, but I don’t count that since they didn’t have a choice.
I feel like people forgot the insane hiring spree everyone went on after 2020. That didn’t seem sustainable at the time, and it wasn’t. Surprise?
Am I in a weird bubble? Are there actually a lot of Iraq veterans in Silicon Valley?
There are a decent number, yes, although the last major deployment in Iraq specifically ended 14 years ago. Either you're in a weird bubble or the people you've met who are in the military picked up on some signal not to share that information with you.
Lol are you for real? Even if you want to give more credit to the USSR than the west usually does the WW2 US military directly and indirectly did a lot for technology. But you skip over that to go to the Spanish American war?
I don't know about a lot but there are many veterans in tech that did extremely advanced stuff when they served. After all, Silicon valley used to be for defense
No shade on military folks, though I don’t remember the last worthwhile thing the US military did, maybe the Spanish American war?
But anyway, I have met precisely 0 high end developers with a military background. If you are a person with that sort of brain, military just does not really make any sense for you to do. It’s way too much work for way too little money and you are going to be surrounded by people who can’t understand what you are thinking at all.
Oh I have met a few from countries with compulsory military service, but I don’t count that since they didn’t have a choice.
I feel like people forgot the insane hiring spree everyone went on after 2020. That didn’t seem sustainable at the time, and it wasn’t. Surprise?
Am I in a weird bubble? Are there actually a lot of Iraq veterans in Silicon Valley?