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It is very insulting to expect that the experience of working in a factory or mining environment will translate at all as skills necessary for programming.
by ftvy 7y ago
It is very insulting to expect that the experience of working in a factory or mining environment will translate at all as skills necessary for programming.
- kbos87 7y agoIt’s also very insulting to imply that all some group of people is likely doing all day is throwing heaps of coal into a furnace. Even most seemingly simple blue collar jobs are usually pretty detailed and complex in their own way.
- Turing_Machine 7y ago> It’s also very insulting to imply that all some group of people is likely doing all day is throwing heaps of coal into a furnace. Indeed. Not to mention that no one has been doing that for a very long time. That's not what coal miners, nor has it ever been what coal miners do. A guy who shovels coal into a furnace was called a "stoker", and that unskilled labor job was automated out of existence about a hundred years ago. A coal miner is a skilled laborer who (nowadays) uses advanced machinery and technology. Look into how "longwall mining" works. It's pretty cool.
- asveikau 7y agoIt's very insulting to factory workers or miners to assume off the bat that they can't learn or acquire new skills.