I would suspect Joel is discounting the summer work that young people do. i.e. h...

		rmc on March 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1% (2005) I would suspect Joel is discounting the summer work that young people do. i.e. he probably means: *They only ever applied for one or two [programming] jobs in their lives."