There is none to be had as far as I can tell, unless you are recent .NET, which nobody is, and I can tell you from experience, a few years in the aughts won’t cut it to even get an interview. The positive though, FOSS exists, we can use our skills outside capitalism to build a better future for all workers.
I was thankfully early enough in all of this and have always been skeptical enough to save on the upswings where I think I can just rock a retail job if I can find one that will hire me, I was a FIRE cashier back in the day 30 years ago… If I were retraining I’d go electrician. They’d need pretty tight robots and GREAT insurance for people burning to death to replace you.
There was a time I considered mortician-ing… there is a cleaning up dead people phase internship, but there will always be dead people… fair warning I did not go into it on the premise it was going too corporate 30 years ago, but…
There is none to be had as far as I can tell, unless you are recent .NET, which nobody is, and I can tell you from experience, a few years in the aughts won’t cut it to even get an interview. The positive though, FOSS exists, we can use our skills outside capitalism to build a better future for all workers.
I do have to pay the bills in the meantime. Maybe carpentry? Idk
I was thankfully early enough in all of this and have always been skeptical enough to save on the upswings where I think I can just rock a retail job if I can find one that will hire me, I was a FIRE cashier back in the day 30 years ago… If I were retraining I’d go electrician. They’d need pretty tight robots and GREAT insurance for people burning to death to replace you.
Unfortunately, electrician apprenticeships are bonkers competitive here. I did look into it though.
There was a time I considered mortician-ing… there is a cleaning up dead people phase internship, but there will always be dead people… fair warning I did not go into it on the premise it was going too corporate 30 years ago, but…