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This 'school' was the final marker for me for the 'programmer bubble'. I remember back in the aughts when the rhetoric wasn't 'l2code' it was 'learn graphic de
by effingwewt 6y ago
This 'school' was the final marker for me for the 'programmer bubble'.
I remember back in the aughts when the rhetoric wasn't 'l2code' it was 'learn graphic design' in a few weeks and be a highly paid graphic artist working for the biggest most famous companies making the best money!
Really there was never anything special about any of it, it just seemed a daunting task. The more people realized this the more the job market was flooded until the .com bubble burst. Which was a good thing, really.
Here we have the same thing again. The things I remember most from last bubble that match with this are for-profit 'technical colleges' with 'degrees' but they arent really because they're un-accredited. Now they just call them coding boot camps, but I see no difference.
It all smells like taking advantage of the most desperate of people in the worst spots who want nothing more than to genuinely improve their lives.
I believe ITT Tech and Hallmark eventually got sued over the same stuff- lying about job placement ratios, constant teacher turnover, constant ripoff and high pressure tactics stories.
Also fanny packs are back again, so why not for profit pretend schools?
All we do is visit the same crimes to each other.