It's the same for language. Now everyone is writing super smart things but there is 0 reasoning or understanding when you talk to or ask them them about it.
The AI doom-trolling (h/t Cal Newport) of the big two firms is so utterly disreputable, shameful and absurd that everyone has lost their heads, and with long enough perspective it's possible to see that this is going to go on for another couple of years.
I am past my half-century and currently trying to get back into things after a period of devastating burnout, but figuring out all this stuff from the perspective of a freelancer, without falling into the traps being laid, is challenging.
I would like to get out of the industry but I don't really know to where, yet. The only reassuring thing is that outside of the IT world, people are proving more resilient to AI marketing than we are.
Eh, it really depends on whether your wealth has creeped into your lifestyle, as well as if you have a family and have set roots into an expensive city.
I live a decently frugal life and would not mind much going back to eating beans+rice on even days and rice+beans on the odd ones, but a lot of people get into very expensive habits and interests as soon as they start earning a bit more.
Not planning, and due to these circumstances likely even able, to get to work in tech (or any other workplace) ever again.
So there are more ways than one to tap out.
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The mechanics I know personally despise the model dealerships work under, where time is often an arbitrary number with no connection to reality, but it does decide your paycheque.
Sounds like the entire software dev field is going to implode violently within a few years, causing many companies to go titsup due to a sheer lack of experienced devs. Only those who have a war chest large enough to allow them to pay through the nose will still be standing.
Not being from the USA helps with this decision.
I was offered a payed internship at uk minimum wage. 18k per year at the time.
I got turned down because I asked how much. I was 25 at the time and trying to raise a family. After that the offerings got worse at the bottom. So it discouraged me from continuing with my degree.
I now code for myself and to automate my work. I get paid much better now than if I had of followed that path.
I can only imagine how the millions of cs majors are coping with this.
Hint: they will still be able to hire people if they need them.
If the whole industry implodes, I'll probably just go and get another degree or a PhD and try to pivot into an adjacent field.
But for right now, I think that staying in tech makes the most sense. The WSJ and these other bootlicker newspapers want people to be uneducated and unable to move abroad or escape the corporate hellscape this country is turning into. More money is more freedom from these managerial cunts who are stumbling over themselves to fuck up everything. I genuinely think that things will not positively change until the educated people start leaving the US en masse and shit up the whole US economy.
But I'm wondering if anyone here can chime in with smart ways to pivot where you can apply the same type of skillset that leads someone to do well in SWE. Is statistics a good route?
Millennial here, I've mostly given up on that front. I won't get into details, but trust me: money definitely helps but it's not the deciding factor (or even the main risk factor).
> My plan is to just stay in the game as long as possible and bag as much money as possible.
but yeah overall my plan is pretty much the same.
In the US, anyway, you do see that. Experienced nurses make money comparable to what experienced devs make, and as the doctor and nurse shortage worsens, making life harder for those that remain, more of them are deciding to leave early.
A dev with the same experience I think is at least 50% more than this.
So recently I thought, fuck it, I'll go back to fixing tractors.
The money's okay, and people are *really really grateful* when you drive out to the middle of their field at 11pm to weld some irreplaceable broken part back together.
Growing up and living in a rural area fosters The Hacker Nature like nothing else. If you don't open up the broken thing and repair it, then guess what? It will remain broken until you do, and right now it's sunny and there's a breeze. If you leave it just now, you'll just have to walk home, and walk back out to it tomorrow, when it will be raining and you'll get bitten by midges, and it'll all be a much more miserable experience.
Not so fun in January and 140mph winds when you're trying to stick weld a broken barn door hinge.