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• shekay commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
  Hopping in here to comment about generational differences with respect to long-term stints at jobs. I'm Generation X (41) and my parents have expressed discomfort with all of my job changes, as though I were endangering my livelihood. You've got the character of different age groups right, at least for IT workers and probably class boundaries. My parents are blue collar, I'm white collar. a programmer. and I'm on the old end of a programmer. In contrast to my parents, I felt uncomfortable for having worked at my last employer for more than 5 years, and I left after 7....
• Mitch Wagner commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
  "... I felt uncomfortable for having worked at my last employer for more than 5 years, and I left after 7. And my disomfort came from worrying about the impression I might give future employeers if I'd stuck with my last job too long because it might be a sign of stagnation." I recently found myself making excuses for still working for the same company that hired me in 1989. I explained that I'd actually been laid off twice in that time, and quit of my own accord once. So I've been hired by the same company four times. And...
• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawm_MGMqV4uXUu1Qn9fuurQnI7EIa4tXvdA commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
  Congrats on the name check and basic rehash of your synopsis in the FT today...
• mcrodgers commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
  BTW, RISKS-FORUM Digest 27.45 quotes and links to your Foreign Policy article....
• halter.steven commented on Snowden leaks: the real take-home
  Nice reference to this in a Bruce Schneier post: Government Secrecy and the Generation Gap...