I genuinely truly hate that there is both a huge population of older/retiring senior programmers in all sorts of jobs (MEGACORPS, state, local, public, federal, and small-businesses alike) and also a huge population of eager/teachable junior programmers looking for jobs. If our stupid social organization wasn’t so motivated by markets and profit we’d all be better off for it.
Older professionals linking up with younger professionals to cultivate talent, share ideas, and generally make better code would be great but the Vampires and Mummies don’t want better products or better workers, they want profits and whatever the current magical hyped super-tech is. I’d also think a lot of our terrible brittle software infrastructure wouldn’t suck so much either if new hires and seasoned professionals worked together more often.
Regardless, comp-sci majors aren’t all would-be techno tyrants and wannabe Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Most of them are just regular people who did what they were “supposed” to do, and went to school to get a degree in field they were told will have have jobs for them. Sure like ~10-20% of them wanna be the next Zuckerberg or whatever, but that’s true of any graduating class of STEM dorks.
It’s all really fucked up. I feel bad for them because even if you push all of the many legitimate problems of higher education aside, that shit is too expensive to have a job lined up after graduation. 6-18 months of under/unemployment is not good for the souls of young people who have been told their whole life that you have to have a grown-up job or you’re a bum.
I went to school for CS out of passion, computers and software have been my bread and butter since I was a kid. Currently on month 7 of the job hunt with no bites. I got another degree in math for similar reasons, but job prospects from that are pretty slim too. It’s a grim landscape; there’s work to be done and a need for more workers, but it’s more profitable to bleed the existing workforce white than to hire new people in any real quantity. And they lean on “AI” as an excuse for the hiring freezes but the reality of that grift is obvious; it’s all just bluster and excuses to pad the margins.
It’s a grim landscape; there’s work to be done and a need for more workers, but it’s more profitable to bleed the existing workforce white than to hire new people in any real quantity.
Facts dude! Objectively correct take. It’s so frustrating that you hear all this “No one wants to work anymore”/“There is a talent gap”/“Our graduates just aren’t a good ‘fit’ for our company” all that shit. There are plenty PLENTY of work to around and workers who just need to be taught how to do it from those who are currently doing. These companies don’t want to hire, they don’t want to train the few hires the few who actually snag a job, they don’t want to take any risk of any sort, they just want all the reward. It’s so lame.
Same thing with civil engineering too, but don’t worry all of our infrastructure has been well built, maintained, and has thoroughly planned replacements. lol.
I genuinely truly hate that there is both a huge population of older/retiring senior programmers in all sorts of jobs (MEGACORPS, state, local, public, federal, and small-businesses alike) and also a huge population of eager/teachable junior programmers looking for jobs. If our stupid social organization wasn’t so motivated by markets and profit we’d all be better off for it.
Older professionals linking up with younger professionals to cultivate talent, share ideas, and generally make better code would be great but the Vampires and Mummies don’t want better products or better workers, they want profits and whatever the current magical hyped super-tech is. I’d also think a lot of our terrible brittle software infrastructure wouldn’t suck so much either if new hires and seasoned professionals worked together more often.
Regardless, comp-sci majors aren’t all would-be techno tyrants and wannabe Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Most of them are just regular people who did what they were “supposed” to do, and went to school to get a degree in field they were told will have have jobs for them. Sure like ~10-20% of them wanna be the next Zuckerberg or whatever, but that’s true of any graduating class of STEM dorks.
It’s all really fucked up. I feel bad for them because even if you push all of the many legitimate problems of higher education aside, that shit is too expensive to have a job lined up after graduation. 6-18 months of under/unemployment is not good for the souls of young people who have been told their whole life that you have to have a grown-up job or you’re a bum.
I went to school for CS out of passion, computers and software have been my bread and butter since I was a kid. Currently on month 7 of the job hunt with no bites. I got another degree in math for similar reasons, but job prospects from that are pretty slim too. It’s a grim landscape; there’s work to be done and a need for more workers, but it’s more profitable to bleed the existing workforce white than to hire new people in any real quantity. And they lean on “AI” as an excuse for the hiring freezes but the reality of that grift is obvious; it’s all just bluster and excuses to pad the margins.
Facts dude! Objectively correct take. It’s so frustrating that you hear all this “No one wants to work anymore”/“There is a talent gap”/“Our graduates just aren’t a good ‘fit’ for our company” all that shit. There are plenty PLENTY of work to around and workers who just need to be taught how to do it from those who are currently doing. These companies don’t want to hire, they don’t want to train the few hires the few who actually snag a job, they don’t want to take any risk of any sort, they just want all the reward. It’s so lame.
Same thing with civil engineering too, but don’t worry all of our infrastructure has been well built, maintained, and has thoroughly planned replacements. lol.