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What skills would they have that would be useful to any of those fields? They have spreadsheet type banking skills. I wouldn't be useful for those fields eithe
by MattGaiser 3y ago
What skills would they have that would be useful to any of those fields? They have spreadsheet type banking skills.
I wouldn't be useful for those fields either as a software engineer. I have coding skills, but cannot really do anything else.
- carlmr 3y ago>I have coding skills, but cannot really do anything else. I don't know how you think that could mean you'd be useless. Coding skills are useful in a lot of places, especially so when there are few programmers around. In my previous job there was a team doing calibration. They hired a software guy to do some scripting work. After half a year he automated all the calibration work and essentially made 30 engineers jobless. You basically only need somebody to record enough data and let the script auto-calibrate everything. Not every job will have such low-hanging fruit in terms of automation potential, but in places where a software engineer hasn't looked there will usually be a lot of processes that can be automated.
- yardie 3y agoSCADA endpoints get smarter and more capable everyday. Many are running a simple API server. You'd fit right in because the codebase for hardware is approaching the modern coding practices of the web. I just met a family friend who changed careers from banking and mortgages to installing EVSEs and PowerWalls. He's also making $500k, 3x his previous salary.
- hotpotamus 3y agoI know some guys who get millions a year to play basketball, but all the blue collar workers I know work way too hard for something like $50-60K/year.
- mhh__ 3y agoVirtue > Skill