Readit NewsAgeism would be one of my top concerns with regard to re-employment. It is also one of the biggest factors prompting techies to try doing their own thing.
Take a good look at your co-workers. What percentage are beyond middle age? This should give you some indication of your employment prospects going forward.
My feeling is it has not hurt my career at all, and more likely made it better - having your own company, with your own clients and working on lots of things you learn lots of skills you likely won't learn grinding it out for mega-corp year after year.
Other big bonus is, on my resume - there are no gaps - I was either on someone else's payroll (for me less than 5 years of my 35 years of work) or doing my own thing - I never had a recruiter or hiring manager question 'gaps' - on paper I was 100% employed at all times, which is easy to say if you have your own little corp - even if you were technically idle at times.
IMO if you have some money to get thru thru for a while (i.e. you won't be homeless if you don't get a check every two weeks), this is the perfect economy for doing your own thing.
It’s not that difficult of a concept. And no, like others will inevitably suggest you can’t just legislate a multinational company to build its facilities onshore because you need them to. If you need something from a company you make it worthwhile, which is what’s happening here.
Leadership is always to blame if something goes wrong, it's only fair as they will get the credit if things go right. That's the price of leadership.
Quite a logical leap to say that everyone in a corp deserves to be held 'blameless' except the CEO - imo, you can't have it both ways.
Those are often confused.
I have been feeling cynical about the "blameless" culture seeping into entire organizations recently. At the end of some quarters where my team has fallen behind, I run away from the question of "who was really at fault here?". I probably should not do that...
I am not planning on doing this, but explaining it on a scale that I can relate to would be helpful, because I know, for example, that said house can store a winter's worth of heat in a 1000 gallon oil tank, or small woodshed big enough for 6 cords of wood.