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How can I leave this industry. I've been a web dev since graduating in 2007 and no longer have the desire to compete in an oversaturated, increasingly complex

How can I leave this industry. I've been a web dev since graduating in 2007 and no longer have the desire to compete in an oversaturated, increasingly complex industry. If i have to work for someone else, I'd rather take the path of least resistance. Try to be on easy mode. That's just me. I lost my passion for all of it. We recently started hiring for a junior front end, and I had to review the test results. 95% of the applicants are unable to perform the most basic tasks. I blame this on all the bootcamps and learn to code courses. There is a flood of unqualified people in this field and it's just tiring for me to imagine the future. One where my experience has zero value and I have to keep proving myself over again. Who needs it.

ramraj07 5y ago
You can't leave this industry because frankly no other industry will coddle it's overpaid, dunning Kruger workforce like software. Go to a law firm or a plumbing gig and complain that their task management is literally the hell and see what happens. Of course unqualified people apply a lot, it's because the secret is out that a bunch of lazy people can get paid obscene amounts in this field! There's a flood of unqualified people because you won't put a salary amount in the ad that will actually attract the right talent. There's tons of ways you can weed out the unqualified people but you won't because there won't be any applications left after that.
- IshKebab 5y ago
  Well said! This is the easiest most well paid job I've had by far. Also if you're bored of web dev just move to another programming area.
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arp242 5y ago
> I blame this on all the bootcamps and learn to code courses. There is a flood of unqualified people in this field and it's just tiring for me to imagine the future. One where my experience has zero value and I have to keep proving myself over again. Who needs it. It's been like this for as long as I remember, and was probably even worse 20 years ago before the dot-com crash where anyone who could sum up numbers in Excel was a programmer and anyone who knew how to defrag their C:\ drive was a sysadmin. I am exaggerating only very slightly with this. The essential problem is that the industry has been growing so fast and there are never enough senior programmers to train the junior ones. This is a field that has been doubling in size every 10 years or so for the last 40 years. You're bound to have problems with growth numbers like that :-/

ramraj07 5y ago

You can't leave this industry because frankly no other industry will coddle it's overpaid, dunning Kruger workforce like software. Go to a law firm or a plumbing gig and complain that their task management is literally the hell and see what happens. Of course unqualified people apply a lot, it's because the secret is out that a bunch of lazy people can get paid obscene amounts in this field! There's a flood of unqualified people because you won't put a salary amount in the ad that will actually attract the right talent. There's tons of ways you can weed out the unqualified people but you won't because there won't be any applications left after that.

IshKebab 5y ago
Well said! This is the easiest most well paid job I've had by far. Also if you're bored of web dev just move to another programming area.

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arp242 5y ago

> I blame this on all the bootcamps and learn to code courses. There is a flood of unqualified people in this field and it's just tiring for me to imagine the future. One where my experience has zero value and I have to keep proving myself over again. Who needs it. It's been like this for as long as I remember, and was probably even worse 20 years ago before the dot-com crash where anyone who could sum up numbers in Excel was a programmer and anyone who knew how to defrag their C:\ drive was a sysadmin. I am exaggerating only very slightly with this. The essential problem is that the industry has been growing so fast and there are never enough senior programmers to train the junior ones. This is a field that has been doubling in size every 10 years or so for the last 40 years. You're bound to have problems with growth numbers like that :-/