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I have a patent and wouldn’t put it on my resume. Anything I patent belongs to my company anyways, what’s the point really.
I did bring it up to my son’s 3rd grade class a couple years ago when I volunteered to help them with their “inventions” project. They were so impressed, like I was a genius. Then I showed them what I invented and they weren’t as impressed, which I knew would happen, but I brought it up to show them even simple ideas can be patentable and be worth $.
I did bring it up to my son’s 3rd grade class a couple years ago when I volunteered to help them with their “inventions” project. They were so impressed, like I was a genius. Then I showed them what I invented and they weren’t as impressed, which I knew would happen, but I brought it up to show them even simple ideas can be patentable and be worth $.
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Nobody (well most people) don't put down a bad reference. It's super common to call the places they have listed as their past employment and ask someone about them. Non corporate, and the person you call and ask about them is normally the owner. I hear all kind of stuff from "wich he still worked here" to "I fired him" and once "dod you know where he is so I can call the police he stole a bunch of shit".
My first bosss and also an investor in me had a number of patents from when he worked for Texas Instruments. He had moved on and he told me he didn't share that info with anyone, but if so motivated someone could find the info.
My first bosss and also an investor in me had a number of patents from when he worked for Texas Instruments. He had moved on and he told me he didn't share that info with anyone, but if so motivated someone could find the info.
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Unless the Government magical improves together with the Job market I am not going anywhere near
a job application.I am not really interested to work my butt off for some greedy suit for barely any money to afford shit.
Besides with those Taxes nah this shitty system will die with Gen Z call us lazy I call us not stupid enough to keep this shitty system alive.
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How do you guys gauge the level of employee retention when applying to new jobs? I have multiple offers, all in consulting. Problem is I don't want to pick one and then be worried about my job, but maybe that just comes with the territory nowadays..
One of the jobs offers $165k remote, another offers $157k remote, another offers $147k hybrid.
The $165k job used to be employee owned but was bought out by a PE firm, and online reviews say there's over hiring, layoffs, etc but it's all from locations different from the one I applied to.
The $157k job is heavy into government contracts but my role isn't involved with the government.
The $147k job seems pretty stable.
Then there's my old employer who has excellent stability and learning opportunities but they will likely lowball me to the $130k range (remote) or so.
In my experience engineers (non software) aren't laid off very frequently.. I'm just concerned that all these firms have timesheets and if there's not enough work to go around, it presents a problem.
One of the jobs offers $165k remote, another offers $157k remote, another offers $147k hybrid.
The $165k job used to be employee owned but was bought out by a PE firm, and online reviews say there's over hiring, layoffs, etc but it's all from locations different from the one I applied to.
The $157k job is heavy into government contracts but my role isn't involved with the government.
The $147k job seems pretty stable.
Then there's my old employer who has excellent stability and learning opportunities but they will likely lowball me to the $130k range (remote) or so.
In my experience engineers (non software) aren't laid off very frequently.. I'm just concerned that all these firms have timesheets and if there's not enough work to go around, it presents a problem.
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Normally I will know at least some of the recent hitory of a company. But if I don't I ask when their last lay off was and what for. From what I've been told a loty of people never ask. Some companies get caught up in other stuff like 2008 or whatever. There are some companies that will man up and man down in the shop, meaning they lay off and hire often. Unless the economy is in a total metdown in my line of work guys in the office normally don't get laid off because without them you can't even get bids together. Those that man up and man down normally are shitty places to work, can't get qualified people and bitch and moan about shitty workers all the time.
I normally work for myself but the last full time job I was hired for the owner who at the time had owned the compnay almost 40 years he inherited when his dad died while he was in college. Anyway talking to him about going to work there he told me they had never laid off anyone and the only people he ever fired was someone that stole some. That's pretty rare. Of course that misses the people he made work a living hell and they quit.
I normally work for myself but the last full time job I was hired for the owner who at the time had owned the compnay almost 40 years he inherited when his dad died while he was in college. Anyway talking to him about going to work there he told me they had never laid off anyone and the only people he ever fired was someone that stole some. That's pretty rare. Of course that misses the people he made work a living hell and they quit.