About the rich Finns before 1991

Posted Apr 21, 2013 19:20 UTC (Sun) by XERC (guest, #14626)
In reply to: About the rich Finns by viro
Parent article: Huang: The $12 Gongkai Phone

Indeed. Before the 1991 the Finns had clozy deals with the Soviet Union and they leeched not just Estonia but the whole Soviet block. In return, Finland offered the Soviet Union the Finlandization.

Before 1991 and the Nokia star-flight the most influential export industry of Finnland was ship-building and the main building material, metal, came from the Soviet Union.

About the rich Finns before 1991

Posted Apr 21, 2013 19:32 UTC (Sun) by xxiao (guest, #9631) [Link] (1 responses)

I don't know much about Europe history, but being an experienced developer does not guarantee you a decent job, it all depends, sometimes you might be just 'over-qualified'. Anyway it is better not to use a broad brush to paint just based on your individual experience.

About Being Overqualified

Posted Apr 21, 2013 20:19 UTC (Sun) by XERC (guest, #14626) [Link]

Thank You for Your kind answer. :)

May be You are right. The thing is, I'm interested from the result. I want to prove to be valuable, to really earn some arguments for a good salary and I want to earn the respect of the smartest developers, regardless of what the bosses and dumb ones think.

I'm also self-motivated and that means that some bosses might start to feel that if some subordinate organizes everything, studies what the clients need, communicates with fellow developers and works really hard to get a great product, then their job might be at risk. Why to pay to an expensive manager, if the team is able to work without the manager, the tech-geeks are capable of communicating in "plain human language" and capable of understanding the context, where the development team organizes?

As a matter of fact, it has been asked from me at some job interviews, that am I really interested in doing the hard coding or do I need to become a boss. My answer: I'm interested in the results and I do not care about the hierarchy, I just want the hierarchy to be out of my way. After hearing that answer, the face of my "future boss" showed concern....

Depressing. Really.

But, by all means, I do not consider myself to be any kind of genius or "above average". I'm just different by my nonstandardness and if that seems far fetched, e.g. how can anybody be "nonstandard" in a world, where there are so many people, then I say that if i weren't weird, I would not have so many troubles and there would be no problem hiring me.