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Sure, but these also aren't professions that will disappear when data center demand goes down or will get automated away in the long term. I’d go as far as to
by paxys 3mo ago
Sure, but these also aren't professions that will disappear when data center demand goes down or will get automated away in the long term.
I’d go as far as to say that for someone in their teens electrician (or trades in general) is a more stable long term career path than software engineer.
- bluGill 3mo agoBoth have boom and bust cycles. They are different cycles, but they are still cycles. I wouldn't call either more stable than the other.
- esikich 3mo agoYou'll always have manufacturing and construction. I've never heard of an electrician boom bust cycle. It's infrastructure. It's always in demand.
- bluGill 3mo agoI know several electricians and they all have been through cycles if they have been around for more than a decade. Things never drop down to zero though, so sometimes they see their buddies without a job while they are still working.
- 8note 3mo agothe real question is what booms when electrician work busts
- throwitaway222 3mo agooil
- oblio 3mo agoNot for long. 1-2 economic cycles and oil and gas will probably be 20-40% of what they are now. Useful to keep in mind when choosing a new career.
- throwitaway222 3mo agoWe're heading into a period where you need to adapt your life to a career on a dime, and be ready to switch again. SW engineering is going away.
- oblio 3mo agoNo, it won't. Unless we AGI, which we won't with LLMs.
- Jolter 3mo agoSocial workers. Unemployment agency workers.
- someothherguyy 3mo ago> these also aren't professions that ... will get automated away in the long term sure they will, all it takes is automating running wire and making connections. when the cost is low enough to do so, it will happen. drones are already used to somewhat automate line inspection, etc. imo, there are plenty of companies attempting to automate traditional trade jobs, and increasing automation for knowledge roles in those companies will accelerate those initiatives.
- jaredhallen 3mo agoIt doesn't sound to me like you've pulled much wire. I'm sure there will be a point in time when that sort of thing can be automated, but it's at least an order of magnitude more difficult a problem than driving a car.
- someothherguyy 3mo ago> It doesn't sound to me like you've pulled much wire. not commercially, but i worked as a residential electrician and contractor for half a decade, if we are doing ad hominems
- Mawr 3mo agoI'd say it's at least two. Driving a car is fairly straightforward, the problems are all tractable. Can't imagine where I'd even start with automating the work of an electrician. Even something as basic as robots grabbing regular objects is intractable right now, much less handling wire. You'd have to have a project of massive scale that's designed specifically to aid automation and then have a fairly straightforward robot doing the work. "Send a robot to arbitrary location X and do arbitrary electrician job Z" is fantasy land.
- archonis 3mo ago>> have a project of massive scale If datacenter demand doesn't evaporate, mega scale datacenters sound like the most probable candidates for this.