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This website is filled with 30 and 40 year olds who rerolled the life dice into successful tech careers so it’s not too late. Obviously a large part of that is

This website is filled with 30 and 40 year olds who rerolled the life dice into successful tech careers so it’s not too late. Obviously a large part of that is the boom in tech so I don’t know how reasonably those people could have become doctors or air traffic controllers with their famously long start up time and forced retirement ages respectively. The more interesting cohort for me would be 25-35 year olds (with special emphasis on females) wondering if it would be enough to convince large swathes of new parents not in professional track careers to exit the workforce and care for their own children instead of using daycare. This would be a real net positive for society if it occurred in my opinion.

ghaff 5y ago
Fair enough. Although "change careers" is arguably a different situation from "I've never had a job in my life and maybe I should think about getting one. I wonder what it involves?" People obviously can turn their lives around but it's difficult. I don't necessarily disagree with your other point although I doubt $10K a year or whatever would be enough to influence these sorts of decisions for most people. Any UBI is going to be very Basic.
kodah 5y ago
> This website is filled with 30 and 40 year olds who rerolled the life dice into successful tech careers so it’s not too late. I'm not a 30 year old restarting my career but I restarted my programming career at 27 after pausing it for military service. A couple of notes: - I have not met very many people in tech that have lateral moved careers. I mainly sight them online. - This path was not easy and I would 100% not recommend it, especially if you cannot handle years on years of failure and insecurity in your face. - I would call tech a young person's game. Company behaviors, attitudes, and hiring practices reward youth and the energy that goes with it. Those considerations in mind, counting on rolling the dice on tech is not a good idea. For every one of these people you meet, I suspect there's a long line of people who didn't make it or couldn't tolerate the journey, and I don't blame them.

ghaff 5y ago

Fair enough. Although "change careers" is arguably a different situation from "I've never had a job in my life and maybe I should think about getting one. I wonder what it involves?" People obviously can turn their lives around but it's difficult. I don't necessarily disagree with your other point although I doubt $10K a year or whatever would be enough to influence these sorts of decisions for most people. Any UBI is going to be very Basic.

kodah 5y ago

> This website is filled with 30 and 40 year olds who rerolled the life dice into successful tech careers so it’s not too late. I'm not a 30 year old restarting my career but I restarted my programming career at 27 after pausing it for military service. A couple of notes: - I have not met very many people in tech that have lateral moved careers. I mainly sight them online. - This path was not easy and I would 100% not recommend it, especially if you cannot handle years on years of failure and insecurity in your face. - I would call tech a young person's game. Company behaviors, attitudes, and hiring practices reward youth and the energy that goes with it. Those considerations in mind, counting on rolling the dice on tech is not a good idea. For every one of these people you meet, I suspect there's a long line of people who didn't make it or couldn't tolerate the journey, and I don't blame them.