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I'm 55 in the middle of the US and I am like "where are all the junior devs that are coming for my job?". Where I am, there is not enough of them. I have one k

I'm 55 in the middle of the US and I am like "where are all the junior devs that are coming for my job?". Where I am, there is not enough of them. I have one kid in college an another going into her senior year of high school. Seems like very few their peers are going into computer science. I know it is not for every body, but it is surprising how unpopular it is.

giantg2 4y ago
If you're in the middle of the US, there's a good chance that there aren't that many local tech jobs, requiring moving to a big city (which many don't want). It's also possible that they can make similar money in a trade as they can at the local tech jobs. If they do pay the same, I'd probably recommend a trade over IT. I know I won't be pushing my kid to be a dev based on my own dissatisfaction with the industry.
- mixmastamyk 4y ago
  IT may be annoying but it doesn’t destroy your body like many trades. Maybe gives ya a gut, haha.
  - akimball 4y ago
    Stress will kill you no matter what your profession. Physical exercise can save your life. I nearly died on one IT job, and nearly killed myself on another. I became an investor to escape the pressure to undertake such positions, and now only do things I enjoy. Enough action for flow, not enough for excessive stress - and do physically challenging recreations.
- daltont 4y ago
  I live in medium size metropolitan area (big enough to have a MLB and a NHL franchise). There are plenty of tech jobs.
tibbon 4y ago
I'm 39 and have been doing things in this realm since my teens. C64 was my first computer and I still know how to POKE my way around them. There's a lot of great programmers coming up, but I often find their depth of knowledge to be limited. They can get to elegant solutions, but when it comes to how it fits into a larger distributed system architecture, security, scalability or long term maintainability they seem to start falling short. I've watched a lot of less experienced engineers want to just hit the "reset" button nonstop during an AWS outage, for hopes that resetting the system will clear up the problem and not intuiting the likely causes and consequences. They simply need more time to expand out their layers of knowledge and experience. It will happen over time! I do feel that I was born of an era when many of the layers were more obvious to interact with and less abstracted. It is easy for a developer to get many years into their career and never interact with assembly these days - such was far less likely in the early 80's unless you wanted to only run slow BASIC programs forever.
BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 4y ago
Why become a dev when you will be downsized between 45 and 55? It only pays off when you win the startup lottery and can cash out.

giantg2 4y ago

If you're in the middle of the US, there's a good chance that there aren't that many local tech jobs, requiring moving to a big city (which many don't want). It's also possible that they can make similar money in a trade as they can at the local tech jobs. If they do pay the same, I'd probably recommend a trade over IT. I know I won't be pushing my kid to be a dev based on my own dissatisfaction with the industry.

mixmastamyk 4y ago
IT may be annoying but it doesn’t destroy your body like many trades. Maybe gives ya a gut, haha.
- akimball 4y ago
  Stress will kill you no matter what your profession. Physical exercise can save your life. I nearly died on one IT job, and nearly killed myself on another. I became an investor to escape the pressure to undertake such positions, and now only do things I enjoy. Enough action for flow, not enough for excessive stress - and do physically challenging recreations.
daltont 4y ago
I live in medium size metropolitan area (big enough to have a MLB and a NHL franchise). There are plenty of tech jobs.

tibbon 4y ago

I'm 39 and have been doing things in this realm since my teens. C64 was my first computer and I still know how to POKE my way around them. There's a lot of great programmers coming up, but I often find their depth of knowledge to be limited. They can get to elegant solutions, but when it comes to how it fits into a larger distributed system architecture, security, scalability or long term maintainability they seem to start falling short. I've watched a lot of less experienced engineers want to just hit the "reset" button nonstop during an AWS outage, for hopes that resetting the system will clear up the problem and not intuiting the likely causes and consequences. They simply need more time to expand out their layers of knowledge and experience. It will happen over time! I do feel that I was born of an era when many of the layers were more obvious to interact with and less abstracted. It is easy for a developer to get many years into their career and never interact with assembly these days - such was far less likely in the early 80's unless you wanted to only run slow BASIC programs forever.

BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 4y ago

Why become a dev when you will be downsized between 45 and 55? It only pays off when you win the startup lottery and can cash out.