Intellectual property contracts are common in finance. I had a clause that, if enforced, would have prevented me to work for two years in the industry, while offering half my usual salary in the meantime. I think it's fair (doesn't hold you off forever and also doesn't starve you while you're out of the game). In my case, it wasn't enforced when I left (which is more bad news for me than good, since it just means I wasn't valuable enough :)

>> advertising workers themselves have drunk the Koolaid that used to only be peddled to consumers

Please don't blame the victim. The slaves have no choice, they have to dance like their masters require them to. The "choice" to quit their jobs simply doesn't exist since there are fewer and fewer jobs for more and more hungry and desperate poor (payed just to live to another paycheck, making sure they end up in the streets should they put up some resistance at the pressure to dance as they are told).

I'll call bullshit or your victim mentality shtick.

First, things like "at-will employment", which is an offensive term in itself, is pretty much collectively "the workers" fault, since you just vote to not have that, and while you're at it, better labour laws also (see Europe). While we're at collective bargaining, it could be something as simple as everybody in the office agreeing not working past 5pm, or at the other extreme, unionisation.

The reason neither of these things happens is largely self-centred narcissists who ruin it for everybody, because either they can only think of themselves and not others (e.g. if you're single and don't mind staying late vs somebody has kids), or less charitably, they thought of others and then did it anyway. IMO here's the money quote:

> To be clear, hustle isn’t just hard work — it’s showing that you’re working hard.

Of course it is -.-

Edit: Before you say it doesn't work, or doesn't work in the US, consider some of the unions in the US, including the Screen Actors Guild.

While the parent post isn't phrased very helpfully, it raises a valid issue: beyond outcomes and people's retrospective explanations of those outcomes (which are, generally speaking, notoriously unreliable bases for forming useful theory), what are we actually talking about when we talk about "resilience"? What occurs differently such that one person develops this pattern and another doesn't? This essay sort of stumbles around these question, but ultimately falls back on describing resilience in terms that are more mythic than scientific. Admonishments like "own the fighter within" are what I expect from oily self-help hucksters, not credentialed psychologists writing in major publications.

It's a randomly chosen characteristic that may or may not have any causal relationship to what the commenter didn't like about him. Just like age.

Getting a (new) job in IT is an exercise in futility if you don't know someone inside, so essentially there's not an interview but an invitation.

It's lower-status, more degrading and has worser odds than cold-call telemarketers trying to sell you some new credit card.

By the way, when a telemarketer tricks you into answering his call, you don't subject him to a 3-days intensive rectal exam ("homework") just for the remote possibility of getting a new credit card, which at the end you still don't buy anyways on some made-up pretense.

So developers agree to way worse level of abuse and degradation than the lowliest sales guy.

Also there's one and only one defense with respect to abuse either at interviews or after you get the job: having a large stash of money, which allow you to say NO to abuse.

At least 5 years runway, entirely on your own "payroll". If you're actually competent, that's more than enough time to pick any skill (possibly starting your own business rather than look for a job using it), if you can do 12 hours per day by your own choosing on whatever you see fit.

Don't have those 5 years but only 1-2 or, god forbid, have nothing more than a few months on top of a large amount of credit you have to pay back.... and you're in the 99% percent of desperate and destitute crowd who will submit to anything in exchange for a bowl of soup (guarantee they never break out of slavery).

Problem with the solution is that it's a vicious circle: if you don't already have those 5 years of savings, chances are you're never going to save them anyways.

What a load of bollocks! £90k in finance with deep technical expertise is already in the 99% quantile for London.

Impressive. But I used machine painting as inspiration for physical learning. And next thing in line is using physical machinery as inspiration for painted learning!

>> Darius Foroux: "I’m an entrepreneur, author, and podcaster. I also research tools to build a better life, career, and business. Join my free newsletter if you want to get my latest articles delivered to your inbox."

Another collection of pseudointellectual predigested positive platitudes.

These type of blogs are popping up like flies, just rehashing what others have said without any added substance or power.

Gotta build that brand, baby!