Does the profession and professional experience matter that much, or are there things that matter much more?

My career has been such that I have had to attend relatively few interviews where I was the job candidate. Those interviews were not very lucky either, as much as I wanted a good job, so I became an entrepreneur relatively quickly.

After many years, the interviews started again, but now I was sitting at the other end of the table. It was a difficult situation.

Many people apply for a job with completely different ages, backgrounds, pasts, present and future. Somewhere everyone has their own values and values, everyone wants to work, but where and what they want to do, there is no demand. It's a difficult situation because I know the feeling. 

But I can't hire just anybody, I can't hire everybody, then I can, who would they hire?

It's a very strange world now. On the one hand, almost everywhere you are expected to have one year of experience. But where can you get it if it is expected everywhere? You have to have a degree, but then why is experience required? Because a degree doesn't mean much, it just means a little. Education is outdated, slow and bad.

And then there are the "sweat a lot of money" and "become a programmer in a few months" courses. Also you won't have the one year experience and you've paid a lot of money, but you haven't worked yet. 

And finally, there are those who have x years of experience, so we think they know the business and charge a lot of money. Would the employer's risk be much lower here? I don't think so. The learning wage is much higher, the acquired routine and knowledge can not only accelerate, but also hinder the already established work routine and cooperation.

The programmer who would be hired has decided which train to get on in the big universe we call computer science or programming. He did not make this decision on the basis of exotic offers from travel agencies, but by interviewing several people who had been to the places where the train was going.

The programmer who would be hired is aware that IT is trying to solve real problems for real people, which is not bitcoin. Accordingly, he wants and can communicate with people, has empathy, can understand problems and events and offer solutions to them. You don't even need to know how to code.

The programmer they hire is able to understand everything they learn, organise and store in a systemso that you can build on it. As the knowledge in this system grows, so does the ability to offer solutions that customers can choose from.

The programmer I would hire is humble. You are aware of the extent of your problem-solving ability and that he has never had a year of experience. Therefore helps everyone with everything, wherever he can, and does not jump off the train he has boarded, but keeps on moving, towards a destination further and further away.

So the programmer I would hire would be a humane person with good communication skills who sees the solution to a problem, not the excuse. Humble and respectful of their work and others. His work ethic is characterised by perseverance and a willingness to help where he can.