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It's not even an issue of job scarcity. I have worked enough blue-collar jobs to know that there exist people for whom technical work is a non-starter. Not tha
by JKCalhoun 6mo ago
It's not even an issue of job scarcity.
I have worked enough blue-collar jobs to know that there exist people for whom technical work is a non-starter. Not that they are somehow dim and incapable of learning engineering, but "work" that is not done through labor, that does not show in a tangible way a day's effort… is anathema to them.
- joe_mamba 6mo ago>It's not even an issue of job scarcity. Still it's supply and demand issue. The west has had 20-30 years of grooming the youth that going to college is the right path to middle class lifestyle and blue collar jobs are for losers who are too stupid to study. You can't be shocked when the supply demand reverses. South Park even had an episode mocking this, with plumbers being the new tech bros, and tech bros being unemployed. > but "work" that is not done through labor, that does not show in a tangible way a day's effort… is anathema to them Same applies within white collar jobs too. Some engineers want to work in hardware, firmware, mechanical jobs, because the output is tangible, instead of pushing JSONs to the cloud, even if that's not more complicated than the other.
- JKCalhoun 6mo ago"Some engineers want to work in hardware, firmware, mechanical jobs, because the output is tangible…" Ha ha, the giddy feeling a software engineer feels when they write a few lines of assembly on a Motorola 68HC11 and get an LED to turn on…