The parent conceded we're talking 50 years not 35 years, and my point wasn't only that the job is different but that society is different. how is the job diffe

The parent conceded we're talking 50 years not 35 years, and my point wasn't only that the job is different but that society is different. how is the job different? The pay is much higher and so are the entry requirements, that's the biggest difference. You don't get assigned to program punch cards as part of your secretarial role, you have to actively get educated and good to choose it as a career. I think there's far more places now expecting crazy hours but that's anecdotal I don't have numbers on it. But the languages are different (mostly), the tooling is different, the deployment is different, the scale is different.