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Software development is by nature a boom and bust industry, probably most like film. It’s about creative and isosyncratic contractors picking up projects when t
by groundzeros2015 1y ago
Software development is by nature a boom and bust industry, probably most like film. It’s about creative and isosyncratic contractors picking up projects when they are available.
What most people aspiring for a white collar career probably want is a job in IT - managing technology for business is much more stable than developing novel tech.
If the thought of needing to move or lose a job strikes you as horrible, this is not a likely career path for you.
- tamimio 1y agoNeither software development nor IT work is engineering work and shouldn't be considered one either. I am talking about engineering jobs, jobs that you went to school for 4-5 years in an engineering discipline, not a few weeks bootcamp or made-up program like computer science only to be called an engineer later, diluting the whole industry in the process. So yeah, software development might be boom and bust, engineering is not.
- groundzeros2015 1y agoYep. I’m talking about the software industry. Not working on planes for Boeing. > made-up program like computer science Sounds like you have a personal axe to grind. It’s ok lots of people have undergrad EE degrees.
- evilduck 1y agoThe first civil engineering degree was minted less than 200 years ago even though we've been building civil infrastructure works for millennia. There were plenty of mishaps along the way for that field too. The creation of the first digital computer is still within living memory. The state of the software industry and its maturity is doing ok given its youth.