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During the pandemic, businesses that had been slow to adopt enterprise software began rapidly catching up. [...] Suddenly, software talent could pick and choose from a massive pool of job opportunities...
Worse: by then universities will typically start churning out freshly-minted new IT graduates with zero experience and zero appeal to recruiters, 2 to 5 years after whatever was hot 2 to 5 years before isn't anymore.
I got my big break on the job market before the 2000 bubble burst. And then I could stay employed because I had a few years of experience in big name companies. And then I was immune from unemployment because my resume was fat and diverse enough. I hope for the sake of young engineers today that they'll have the same chance I had in the mid 90's when stuff was starting to heat up, because newcomers will find it tough to get a job after college in 2 or 3 years.
In my experience, those people are neither necessarily stupid, nor crazy, nor evil or having the intention of hurting anyone.
And they are most definitely not writing it to derail threads with floods of replies. (That's the actual definition of "trolling", dear kids.)
They are simply *afraid*. And they *actually believe* that stuff. To a level where a lie detector would not mark it as a lie.
Because it is their comforting delusion for coping with a situation that seems not only scary but completely *overwhelmi
The technology behind the vaccines had been worked out at least 10 years prior to them being introduced. The funding started at least as far back as the GW Bush Administration and continued apace since then.
When half the nation's population drops dead from Antibody Dependant Enhancement (ADE) induced by these poorly tested vaccines, there will be no end of job openings available in every single industry.
(*): The joke is that with coronaviruses, ADE have been described in cats (e.g.: FIP), but never yet in humans. So if the poster is afraid of ADE in a coronavirus, they must be a cat.
(**): Do I really need to explain that one?
Not in a very very long time. In the US, demand has been extremely hot post the dot-com bubble burst. However, well heeled folks with the right "connections" have paid off their politician friends to allow for an influx of significantly cheaper labor. But the jobs ARE there. Perhaps not at a market level of comp when one is constrained to live in one of the pricey hubs of hiring, but that is clearly changing due to remote work.
If you can be simply discarded and replaced by someone else without a second thought for your experience and domain knowledge then yeah, maybe you have a problem. But that's at the level of Excel monkey and the guy who blows crumbs out of "broken" keyboards.
In all seriousness, though, this usually only applies to people who do something because they like doing it. A lot of people just chase whatever it is that is currently in high demand and thus well paid, and they do that. Medicine, law, information security, whatever promises money, they will do it.
So instead of hunting money, do what you're passionate about. Because money is something that comes with being good at something, and being good at something is something you'll only be if you really want to do it and don't treat it like a 9-to-5 nuisance to get out of your way.
Sounds like someone who has never experienced ageism. Companies do it all the time, and it's nice to believe it will never happen to them because they're not an "excel monkey" or don't "blow crumbs out of broken keyboards". Yea sure kid till you start costing your employer too much money then you're no longer special.
It's very easy to just be doing the same thing over and over for years and never take the time to keep updated on where even the language or systems you work on are goin in the future, then you can start to struggle even with what you are doing...
The first time I saw ageism (against me) was when I was 35. Some fresh-out-of-college students thought my skill was good, but I "lacked energy." The whole situation was rather humorous to me, because I can code faster than them even without "energy" as they put it, because my "energy" is focused. I think before I type.
yea and those people are not working IT they have either moved up or moved on. those who are left are the doof's walking around for an "android cable" and reconfiguring routers every 6 weeks while having to be walked though it over the phone
You think you're getting programmers for cheap, but 12 months later you realize that you'll never be able to ship the "product" those programmers bodged together for you, and now you'll need to start over from scratch. That's 12 months of (cheap) salaries down the drain, but worse, you're now 12 months further behind your competition and you still need to hire some softwa
The one thing I think I have missed is the ability to drop in on a co-worker for those five minute brainstorming sessions. Trying to remotely find an open slot between back to back meetings is difficult.
I also feel less in tune with the general happening with my co-workers. In the office I could catch fragments of conversations about the status of different projects, schedule changes, and general problems that gave me a better situational awareness of things happening.
If you can save enough on living expenses, you can commute one day a week. The local airport does a pretty brisk commuter business to and from the bay area. There are also a number of people who own their own planes for that purpose. Consider contracting so you can write that off. But please don't do like the helicopter guy and fly over my house to your job in Seattle all the time.
You've got it backwards. When you're isolated in a WFH environment, it becomes blatantly obvious who is actually capable and productive, and who was just skimming ideas off the herd back when everyone was in the office.
I just message them. If they're free, great; if not, they'll say so and get back to me later with the answer at which point I ask a follow-up question. I don't need to be physically near them or see their faces.
I've found I have become more intune with the general happening with co-workers - I've gotten to see inside their houses, when video backgrounds aren't in use.
Most people dropped those after a few months. Of course, now the "blurred" real background is all the rage.
But I got so see colleagues partners, their kids, pets, gardens, pet projects they had been working on - "Look, I'm building a stand-up desk!"
Stop looking for a job. Start looking for *clients*. ... It's such a small change, but it turns you into the chooser. And then you decide your income and your standing. Because you are the one who gets to say "no". Or at least make it look like it, as those "employers" in TFS do now.
Only because the idiots in Congress keep extending COVID unemployment benefits. If you typically work dead-end jobs outside of big cities, why work if you can bring home $2500 a month for doing nothing? They just doubled their income by sitting on their couch. The job market won't stabilize until the COVID benefits finally expire.
The bigger reason is that the shutdowns greatly limited the employment opportunities service industries for a year. In that time, the reliable smart employees that understand the value of good customer service didn't just sit on their hands. They all went out and found new -and typically better- jobs. Now, those service industries are having to scramble to get the good reliable employees to come back and offering
I was replying to someone talking about help wanted signs on every business and was specifically talking about dead-end jobs you idiot.
Nobody said a damn thing about tech workers. If you consider a tech job as a dead-end job, that says more about you than anything else.
It isn't a tin-foil argument as more than half the country (26 states as of June) have already opted to end the program early because it is causing more harm than good. It isn't even a political argument as Democratic governors as
It's a far cry from the early 2000's after the dot-com bubble burst, creating a glut of techies in the West . I had to hop state to state on contracts just to survive. My legacy knowledge paid off as I had a leg up on the web-only newbies at the time. I wonder if an AI bubble poppage will do the same? The future is hard to predict.
This will, as it always does, result in a general increase in the shoddiness of work and stupidity of design. Crapware, spyware, and all sorts of malicious software prevalence will increase, both by the direct action of the incompetent and because of the total piles of shit they will create from their addle though
It's not that suddenly sane POs are popping up offering Gigs that suddenly make sense and are well planned. I also have the strong suspicion, that when I given them my bullet list of things I need to get the job done, the amount of useful answers won't be any better than in the last 20 years, perhaps even worse due to the fact that I will be speaking to leads that had a two-day Scrum certification but don't know squat about Scrum and even less about software development.
What is the difference between tech talent, tech skill, tech experience, and tech competence? Is talent is an ineffable quality that makes a person a legendary 10x developer? Is the word "talent" argot for developers whose productivity in the 95th percentile?
The world will ALWAYS be short of 10x/95th percentile developers. That's why we created software development methodologies, best practices, and processes. By analogy, most people will never be able to ascend a rock climbing route with a difficult of 5.
All of my tech jobs in the past basically consisted of a screening interview, then a more in-depth interview on site (often with multiple people or teams throughout the visit/day), then get an offer (or not) and accept the offer (or not). Quick, straightforward, reasonable.
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