http://localhost:1313/tags/career-displacement/ Recent content in Career Displacement on Andre's blog Hugo en-gb Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://localhost:1313/blog/the-last-gold-rush/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://localhost:1313/blog/the-last-gold-rush/ <p>The software developers of my generation were like those first lucky prospectors during the initial discovery of gold in the wilderness. We arrived early, when the ground was still soft and the claims were unclaimed. We worked hard—long nights lit by the glow of CRT monitors, then LCDs, then the soft blue of modern IDEs. Most of us found a few nuggets of the yellow metal: a steady job, a mortgage, the quiet satisfaction of shipping something that worked. Some found a lot. They struck veins so rich they built companies, cashed out, or simply rode the compounding returns of equity and reputation into something that looked a lot like independence.</p>