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Sorry anon I make about 50% more sitting behind a desk and playing Lego with web services
I literally started learning how to program like months before the whole "AI will take your job on an by the way we don't hire JR devs anymore" so I gave up on it...
I just got to the point where I could consider buying a house months before COVID.
I had thought about joining the military to learn some skills for "free" and graduated highschool exactly when Bush decided Iraq needed to be invaded for ~~oil~~ God knows what reason. Even as a dumb 17 year old I saw right through that and said fuck no.
I completed a trade school 4 months before "the great recession."
If God existed he would be Lucy holding a fucking football and I'm Charlie Brown...
tell me about your next move?
The service industry is suffering pretty badly at the moment, maybe they can become a server and fast forward us to the point where 70% of restaurants and bars close because one worker can't do the jobs of 4 people. Then after they move on to a new industry we can rebuild the service industry properly.
I'm still trying to figure that one out to be honest. I need to leave the state I'm in if I have any hope for a future that isn't living in someone else's garage.
Also I see your username, you should know what I'm aiming for next so you can screw me! Lol :P
Do you have any investment advice we could reverse?
There's a ton of work in green energy and water management.
When Harris wins, there will be even more federal funding being dumped into these sectors. However a ton of that work is either going to be labor intensive or require a specific education (or both).
Also, the software engineering field isn't going to be replaced by AI any time soon (if ever). What will happen is that AI will become a tool of skilled engineers to increase their output efficiency, consistency, and quality.
I wish I had your optimism lol thanks for the suggestions!
Becoming a programmer isn't the gold rush free money wild ride it used to be, but programming skills are 100% still in demand. Lots of companies are pretending that they don't need juniors because something something AI, but that's transient-- Either a) the AI bubble is going to collapse, or b) roles and skillsets are going to shift around until they settle into a new paradigm.
That paradigm might have juniors just like before, or it might look like hybrid "people who code" roles that aren't like traditional full-time developers.
In any case, there's still tons of value in learning to code, and I think it's worth sticking to if you like it.
If you don't particularly like it though, then yeah just bail. The skillset will still be handy, but the career path might be a little unstable for a few years.
Ai bubble won't last. Stick with it my friend. Will agree though its still not a free ride. The job market recently can be rocky especially if you aren't better than average at coding. Suppose the rest of the job market isn't faring fabulously though either
Welding sounds 50% nicer though. Problem solving, but not head-breaking problems that follow you night and day for weeks on end. And after a project you have a tangible result that is actually generating some kind of value.
When's the last time a web service Lego ever did anything but been a financial black hole for VC funding that actually fails to deliver anything of value to society?
Damn it, I think my cynicism dial got stuck again. Time for bedge.
He's probably driving around in rural areas though. What's the cost of living at your place? Not Silicon Valley, I hope?
Wherever you feel like living + internet. Most of the IT career fields don't need to be in a physical office unless things go catastrophically wrong.
Is there any truth to this comment? Most everyone I know has been forced back to the office within the last couple of years.
Takes some job hunting to find a full remote job, and a willingness to tell an employer to eff off with RTO mandates or you're leaving (and follow through).
Yeah so you don't have job stability because rto is just one stupid decision away and looking for a other job like the one you had takes a lot of time, which you won't have if you quit over rto.