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> Word on the street is that times have now changed I'm not that old, but back when I got into the IT world, it was not seen as a particularly desirable profes

> Word on the street is that times have now changed I'm not that old, but back when I got into the IT world, it was not seen as a particularly desirable profession; I rather liked the idea of being the troll in the basement who didn't need to talk to people and just kept the machines running. I suppose I grew up a bit along with the industry, and that is a good thing, but once it became a bit more lucrative it started attracting a fair amount of attention that I'd rather it didn't have.

Viliam1234 3y ago
Twenty years ago, people joined IT because they loved computers. Many of them were on the autistic spectrum. Today, people join IT because they know that's where the money is. For the people who are on the autistic spectrum, this is a bad news, because now they are expected to become happily extraverted, work in noisy open spaces, get interrupted by meetings all day long (and then be on call during the night), keep networking, and get sufficiently good at office politics so that they don't get fired for understanding some corporate bullshit literally. Technical skills are still important, but secondary. tl;dr -- IT was gentrified by normies