My great-grandmother paid a monthly fee to rent her rotary phone from Pacific Bell for *50* years. When we told PacBell to come get their phone, they told us we could keep it.
For 20 years, been donating the same amount each month on the same bank card to the same charity. Every 4 years when the card expires, the bank alerts me to “fraudulent” activity and have to confirm it isn’t fraud.
Just got a phishing phone call purporting to be AT&T (@ATT), complete with their jingle, saying malicious activity was reported on my phone number and to press 1 to keep my account from being locked by providing some information. Caller ID “unknown”.
I have a CS degree with a minor in Women’s Studies. Only regret was that I didn’t go for the double-major. Being afraid to pursue what interests you seems like a boring way to live life.
Netflix does this well: "we pay employees at the top of their personal market. We make a good-faith estimate of the highest compensation each employee could make at peer firms, and pay them that max." jobs.netflix.com/culture
See how SCORE Bot became the reliable eyes-and-ears of the code being written at PayPal. SCORE Bot: Shift Left, at Scale! by Laksh Raghavan and Vidhu Jayabalan @laraghavan: ow.ly/DRVk30l4K9y
"Intentional Communities" encompasses this idea and more, depending on your level of involvement you want with your neighbors (e.g. co-housing, shared meals, communes, etc). Many existing ICs world-wide: ic.org/directory/
I stopped requiring certs and degrees in lieu of experience years ago - I saw co-workers with tons of experience trapped because they didn’t have them. And I made an effort to have entry-level jobs available for people without experience. InfoSec has many paths.