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I work in compliance technology, and I suggest you move into this area if you would like to keep programming for many more decades. Benjamin Franklin's saying
by tmaly 11y ago
I work in compliance technology, and I suggest you move into this area if you would like to keep programming for many more decades.
Benjamin Franklin's saying regarding death and taxes is still relevant despite being written in 1789. I believe it is also relevant in regards to creation of laws.
Last year in the US, the federal register grew by over 60,000 pages. That does not include any rules implemented by other regulatory bodies. That is just one year.
The Dodd Frank law was over 2,000 pages. The Affordable Care Act was countless thousands of pages that did not include the thousands more of rule making that would follow.
Compliance is expensive in any industry, and you have to be in compliance with the rules and regulations of your industry if you want to continue doing business.
There will always be a demand for technology related to compliance because there will always be new rules and regulations being created.
- monknomo 11y agoI work for the government making programs to help people comply with our regulations and we are getting to the point where the reg writers can write regs faster than we can make user interfaces for them (+ support all the existing stuff we have). Difficult to sell management on more reg writers implying a need to hire more programmers, at least until someone sues us for failing to comply with our own regulations... There is no doubt that compliance is fertile, if boring.
- tmaly 11y agoI think it can also be exciting. In some cases the volume of requests requires you to research a better set of solutions. I am given some leeway to come up with creative solutions that can scale. Also since compliance is so broad, you get to work on many different aspects within a company. You can really improve the lives of the people in the company or institution by just coming up with an automated way to handle some of the mundane tasks involved in compliance.
- palidanx 11y agoI second this comment. My business (nutrition facts labeling), is totally dependent on US federal government regulations. For example, the government will be mandating new nutrition fact label designs for all food companies which is going to help open up my market greatly when the final rulings are issued.