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> Too often I see people say to the disappearance of manual labor jobs: good, retrain people to use computers. I have slowly come to the belief that there are s
by fakedang 3y ago
> Too often I see people say to the disappearance of manual labor jobs: good, retrain people to use computers. I have slowly come to the belief that there are some people for whom working with their hands is the only kind of sane work they can do.
The people who say these kinds of things are usually pathetic specialists with a sole focus on their singular task, without looking at the big picture. They have limited interaction with the rest of the team/company/world, and think too highly of their talents and their jobs.
Tell a 50-yr old Java engineer to retrain in Python and Machine Learning, while juggling family, kids and a mortgage, and see how that goes. Newsflash, it doesn't go well. Heck, I've grown up on Android my entire student life, that now I can barely relearn mobile usage with an iPhone. One of the managing partners at my old firm, ex-Harvard and Wharton grad, stuck to using a Blackberry till 2020ish, because he couldn't figure out both.
Now expect a miner to learn how to code, like Joe Biden tells them to....
- Borg3 3y agoYeah, our world started to move way too fast. In the past, new tech usually came slower so new generation could get hands on it, learn and then use it for life time. Now, you start learning on thing and sometimes even in the middle, you are going to switch because it become obsolete. Its insane. What is more insane is, that whole progress I see in IT is just joke. All the new tooling that supposed to be better, easier to use and more productive is actually more bloated, slower and works against you. Yeah, indeed, sometimes its easier to start with a tool (aka, clickty clickty) but thats all. Im heavy CLI user and I follow UNIX philosophy. I love it, write many simple tools and use them together. It works so well. Why abandom it?
- ulfw 3y agoOh please. I am 47 and can't find a job, no matter how hard I try. And I'm in Product (coding is even worse). Ageism in tech is a real thing that's not often talked about.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoDon't think it's age , but more that companies want people versed in the latest tech wizz-bangs but without the crust and habits from the old outdated tech. If you don't have 3+ years experience in AWS, Kubernetes, specific frameworks with knowledge about system design, your employment prospects are in the toilet right now. Nobody values generalists anymore.