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I have so much empathy for people in this kind of situation. There's a brutal inhumanity about the tech hype cycle and how it deprecates and discards skills tha
by zmmmmm 5y ago
I have so much empathy for people in this kind of situation. There's a brutal inhumanity about the tech hype cycle and how it deprecates and discards skills that humans poured their soul into learning in good faith. What should be rich and rewarding careers building on experience and knowledge, continuously gaining over time, become more like a mouse wheel ... constantly running just to keep up... until you eventually fall off and are cast aside.
The only advice that I have is learn the crap out of the fundamentals - they are the only things that won't change. Then use that deep strength to make surfing the hype cycle less exhausting. Use that to "lean in" and embrace change.
- nickd2001 5y ago+1 to all this. :) Absolutely, learn the fundamentals. Also, detecting which tech is here to stay, and which is here today gone tomorrow, is itself a skill, that's essential for survival in this industry. Such a skill tends to come with age and experience (a.k.a getting burnt by working hard to learn something that's then discarded). The earlier this skill is developed the better. Then, one must be ruthless about quitting jobs, shunning higher pay or seniority, when that's necessary in order to keep working on stuff that maintains long-term skills. No good getting paid a fortune if 3 yrs later you're unemployable. I know someone that literally happened to, made a fortune as a contractor paid off his mortgage, then became a postman for a bit, eventually became an accountant as he saw that those skills would have long term value. (He couldn't stay in tech cos his skills were out of date.)
- 5350-uiop-1130 5y agoyes, i often think about what really drives this constant cycle of change.