The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
by Margaret O'Mara · 8 Jul 2019
reconcile the chaotic jumble of legal regimes—Spanish, Mexican, Anglo-American—that had ruled the state. But the result of this provision helped facilitate the job-hopping that became a hallmark of the Valley’s tech community. If an engineer left his job and jumped to a direct competitor, his old employer
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, top-ranked engineering programs, or who had worked at familiar local companies, or whose references came from known and trusted sources. The high degree of job-hopping between companies facilitated this, creating a mobile workforce that often worked in a series of different enterprises, sometimes with the same managers and colleagues. The
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afford. This made the payroll line smaller than it otherwise might have been on the balance sheet, and built loyalty and drive among employees, whose job-hopping inclinations were tempered by the golden handcuffs of stock options that had yet to fully vest. Like any trait developed in relative isolation, the Valley
The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime
by Mj Demarco · 8 Nov 2010 · 386pp · 116,233 words
and next year bank $50 million? Can you control anything about your job, including your measly 4% pay raise? You might think you can by job-hopping, but you can't. Control is weak, if not absent. Compound Interest: What “They” Don't Tell You The second variable in the Slowlane wealth
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stock market to yield bigger returns. He can't force a 200% pay raise. He can't afford an advanced education to raise intrinsic value. Job-hopping offers little incremental pay upgrades. The Slowlaner is enslaved to his equation and resorts to manipulating the only controllable variable, personal net income, which is
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by Nick Frost · 7 Oct 2015 · 292pp · 97,911 words
only leave to go to another restaurant but it felt good anyway. It was positive. After five years of stability now came a time of job-hopping. Moving from restaurant to restaurant. Work was no longer the most important thing in my life, it was raving and comedy and Simon and Smiley
Cashing Out: Win the Wealth Game by Walking Away
by Julien Saunders and Kiersten Saunders · 13 Jun 2022 · 268pp · 64,786 words
primed to deal with workplace dynamics and knew that at a minimum a similar retirement age was possible for her. But after years of savvy job-hopping and frugal living, she very quickly realized she could do it much sooner. “Watching my mom, she’d already told me what was going to
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simply poured all of her extra time into minimizing her spending. She was also willing to break social norms and common career advice by routinely job-hopping and effectively used that tactic to grow her income significantly over a focused period of time. All of this enabled her to funnel all discretionary
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by John McMillan · 1 Jan 2002 · 350pp · 103,988 words
to the new one. Massachusetts was more hidebound. Loyalty to the company and long-term employment were valued. Ideas were tightly held within firms. The job-hopping in Silicon Valley is frenetic. Engineers average a short eleven months in any one job (compared with the three years’ job tenure of the average
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,” said another manager. “I have senior engineers who are constantly on the phone and sharing information with our competitors.”11 Thus, both the job-hopping and the prospect of job-hopping cause ideas to flow across firms. The Silicon Valley computer technologists followed the maxim Seneca had promulgated two thousand years earlier: “The best
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employee of a Route 128 firm would risk being sued upon switching to a rival firm. A Silicon Valley employee has no such fear. The job-hopping that has driven Silicon Valley’s success arguably traces back to California’s weaker protections for intellectual property. A covenant not to compete, like a
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seeking better jobs and inhibiting the usage of existing ideas. Not enforcing it, as in California, has the opposite effect. The spreading of ideas through job-hopping is not in the interest of the firm that does the innovating, for it dilutes the firm’s returns. But the industry as a whole
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(unpaid) work to acquire the correct skills; if you get that job and it makes you miserable, just get another! Such discourse justifies the constant job-hopping that provides companies with what they want: just-in-time labor, easily hired and fired, easily controlled. 21 There’s another famous Thatcherism for this
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by Hunter S. Thompson · 1 Jan 1998 · 235pp · 68,317 words
, but immoral. Like going to the Caribe without a tie. He viewed Moberg's way of life as a criminal shame and called him that job-hopping degenerate. I knew it was Schwartz who had put into Lotterman's head the idea that Moberg was a thief. Sala looked up at me
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