Would anyone with kids be on board with them going into tech? I personally wouldn’t want any kids of mine to have to deal with such a toxic culture and bad management and cost cutting.
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@n1 profession won't go away, it will just shrink and reshape. and my kids who were studying IT and doing programming since junior school and have all connections in the industry from several prior generations of relatives will be able to get those internships and positions when time comes. random normies - won't. so yeah, go chase trades and hospitality. good luck.
@ky lol. you go chase those plumbers jobs, boy.
I am glad our field is purged of all random riff raff which came to IT just for a paycheck. I despise your kind, go chase easy money somewhere else. You were a drag on the whole profession and I very much prefer to guide Codex than meatbags who simply doesn't care.
"yes, my kids are going to tech, same as 3 generations before them. they will be fine. and I am glad that random passengers are out of our beloved profession."
Ostrich.
@b2 More than a few kids saw their tech parents get laid off multiple times and decided on their own to avoid tech.
As for billionaires not paying taxes, per the IRS the top 1% pay almost 40% of all income tax collected. Musk paid $11B in 2021.
The thing about billionaires is that they are not wage slaves. So if they don't exercise any stock options or sell assets for a gain, they will pay no income tax in a given year. We can try taxing wealth, but that typically results in capital flight, though that won't stop some from trying. On the other hand, our captains of industry surely understand that growing employment uncertainty gets unfriendly politicians elected.
I know someone who is a computer science program student advisor at a local state U. She has told me there is a mass exodus out of the CS program. A friend's son switched from CS to a more "hard science" STEM major and he is still worried about being displaced by a bot when he graduates.
yes, my kids are going to tech, same as 3 generations before them. they will be fine. and I am glad that random passengers are out of our beloved profession.
Kids into tech?
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The system was never designed to be in favor of Employee. Why a teacher has to pay taxes and billionaires do not?
Prepare your kids to become an entrepreneur or politician.
Science and Tech soon will be handled by AI. All verifiable work like, math, coding, engineering can be easily done by AI or AI will do better than humans.
Humanities, emotional intelligence, relationship building, communication, medicine, pharmaceutical, nursing, plumbing, electrical work, teaching, counseling, social work,
leadership, negotiation, sales, emergency response and complex field work would still have jobs.
Regardless of the toxic culture and toxic management, this exists in every sector, advising your kid to get into tech sector is a ticket to unemployment. The golden days of software engineering (and jobs around this) are over already and in the next few years it will become obsolete in the most part.