I was at the early end of when programming was being pushed thing. Found a welding degree was an option.

Get a welding degree, welders will never go out. The 08 slump happened, and suddenly I was coming out of school requiring 2 years of work experience to get a job, but couldn't get an entry level job because I was too experienced when the local factory moved to Mexico.

Moral of the story, the industries are not your friend and are happy to fuck you over no matter what you pursue.

The plan was always to over saturate the market with coders so the big techs could lower their wages.

I hate this article. We have tiktok and views and all the other bullshit.

Gotta say if you are posting on tiktok and using it I wouldn't hire you.

But more importantly this trend was happening before AI. The layoffs are an adjustment, or more bluntly a chance to cut to shore up profits and defend mismanagement and bad decisions: like using AI as a sudden company resource.

It sucks, but the writing was on the wall that this field was saturated for a long time, and IT is cheap to outsource which doesn't help.

There are so many bigger picture problems with American companies that articles like these just gloss over the them.

There is no better time than right now for computer Science students and laid off workers to try and form guilds and collectives (small businesses really) that are poised to come in and fix the inevitable mess that is going to follow. Either in the US or to help the EU move away from the US.

If you are profient at making videos (fuck the term content creator) now might be the time to consider making ads and copy that is 100 percent obviously human and sell your services to companies who inevitably are going to try to spin themselves as human in the next 2 to 5 years.

I have noticed the better colleges have been pushing the computer science kids to learn project management as either an ability to use while working in teams, or as a fallback option.

Yeah no shit. This was the plan all along. Big tech wanted to flood the market with too much talent so they could lower pay for engineers. This was always the plan.

They never gave two shits about women in coding, or inner city coding caml's. They wanted mass cheap labor.

The cherry on top is right as that labor was coming out they got a double whammy of AI too.

My favorite line was “All high school kids should learn to code.”. What? No they shouldn’t. Maybe a computer literacy course should be required, but there’s no reason for everyone on earth to know how to code.

They told them to code so that they could steal their ideas and add them as "features" on their own platforms.

Then code for free. Open source is a huge threat to these fuckers that made you bust your asses and then NOT HIRE YOU ANYWAY.

They are hoping you just do something else. I say code something else and take their fucking power away.

The jobs didn't follow because "big tech" lost what was left of its collective mind and put their heads all the way up each others asses.

Learn to code, then just make your own killer app to become big. Easy. /s

What's the word from "billionaires are job creators" people? Oh, yeah. Their the ones laying everyone off in order to use "AI".

“The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary,” Ms. Mishra, now 21, recalls hearing as she grew up in San Ramon, Calif.

This has never ever been true for any job, especially at 21 years old.

I mean maybe there's a rare trade that gives you the bick bucks from the get go, but even law practice and finance takes a lot of unpaid work to finally get properly paid.

Its true many must be dissapointed, but there are too many people just with no talent in the industry. i'm quite sure the good one still have very good jobs/

The amount of times people failed to undetstand economics at this point should be shammed about.

Wealth isn't a matter of deserving it. Any wealth earned by entertaining certain elites visions of what you ought to do is and always will be a function of those elites discretionary spending, and thus always at their discretion.

If you are trying to convince a group of people to give you their wealth in exchange for something, the something is almost always something that is comparitvily easier for you to provide but more importantly something that group needs or wants.

If you spend 3 decades earning certification that you know something, great. What does that give someone? Nothing. It is at best a signifier that you have a comparitive advantage, but is that true, do they people giving their wealth to you belive that? If no to either, its probally not worth it.

Etc etc etc

This isnt just capitalism btw. This is true in intetpersonal relatiinships, mutual aid groups, intertribal bartering, etc.

I 'memba

“Go do what we told a billion others to do! Don’t break the mold!” Yea, big shock there.