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Do you work in law or management?

Are you certain experience is always valued in law and management?

What about consulting companies in the law and management spaces? Do they value experience or just billable hours from warm bodies?

Is experience more valuable simply because it is easily measured whereas skill is hard to measure?

Is there a correlation between experience and skill?

Is it good to seek out places where experience is valued so that you can acquire X years of experience and simply just coast?

Have you ever worked with a programmer who had 15 years of experience but was awful at their job? What about the inverse?



> Do you work in law or management?

No but I know some lawyers. If you specialize in one domain you can make a lot of money. The more experience you get the better. In contrast, programmers with lots of experience often have a hard time getting a new job. They are considered old farts who are overwhelmed by the 'new' over-hyped technology.




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