Originally Posted by
sptraveller
I really feel for you on this "I know I'd be going in and taking people's jobs which is why I'm hesitant to apply" but frankly this just isn't your responsibility.
You can't possibly be in any way responsible for the welfare of a team or community that you aren't even a member of.
If you apply and succeed, all you did is follow their rules which you had no input into.
Apply. Join. When you get there, be a good team player.
Even if that means the irony of not hiring yourself tomorrow.
Yup. The responsibility for accepting poorer terms lies solely with the generation that did nothing to protect the future. Gurning that "you get what you signed for and now you're hurting the CoS of the present group and that you have no right to demand improvements at our expense" (while still training them no less) is perverse, naive, flawed and retarded.
But, if you added all the vertebrae at CX/KA, you couldn't build a single spine.