biotech is like this too, bio itself is such a saturated major in most uni, unless your going into health with good marks (you need grad school) , research side you likely wont find jobs if you arnt a good student going to grad school. biochem, o-chem, physics, gen chem, gen bio all will wreak havoc on your GPa.
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DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 2 months ago
It’s finally happening, tech jobs are suffering the same unemployment that the trades had been suffering for years if not decades, only this time around it’s probably self-inflicted by the AI bubble.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
the trades were only ever going to be hiring one demographic specifically, thats at least ive seen, almost all of them are fair complexion. never a poc has been a trade, and probably arent going to risk htier bodies get destroyed down the line. i do seem them in places like USPS and others though.
darkkite@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
the dotcom bust was much worse
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
This isn’t the first time this has happened, though.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AI hasn’t really taken much, if any tech jobs so far. If anything demand for building and using AI has taken up a good share of the job market in tech.
The bigger issue, currently, is that experience is required even for “entry” level jobs because they simply won’t pay for people who are learning and gaining that experience. It’s also cheaper on the whole to pay someone overseas with experience to do the “grunt work”, for lack of a better word, that you would normally pay a newbie to do, and they’ll get it done faster and more reliably. You’ll have a domestic leadership team and a few senior engineers to steer projects and manage the communication and timezone issues, but very, if any, few fresh graduates.
It’s short term thinking that’s going to fuck the industry in a generation when all the old school guys die or retire, the senior engineers, tech leads, and engineering managers move up to fill their roles and you don’t have enough Jr engineers to become the seniors, leads and managers. They’ll be trying to manage entire teams from overseas, trying to replace people with AI, which will never be a true replacement, and they’ll suddenly see the value in hiring new graduates, but there won’t be enough by then because they made the major useless. The few that exist will probably make bank straight out of school, though, as companies become desperate for them.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Again that thing with union pressure and outsourcing, the latter exists because the former in practice doesn’t.
Everything would work better with unions. Unions-unions-unions.
Socialism was intended as a solution to a real problem. Some its parts turned out to be deadly poison, but that’s about those making immobile hierarchies and using force. Unions and associations and artels, - all these are a system of tools solving some problems, and the best part about them is that they are not hurting market mechanisms, just adding better response times and organization to their sides.
thedruid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wrong. I personally saw entire departments wiped out because of the SAVINGS a. I promised.
Those jobs are gone even though a. I didn’t fill them correctly. they shoe horn in a. I and keep just enough people to try to keep it bandaged and pretending.
The issue is that a. I is not living up to the hype, never will, and now companies are lefvwith egg onbyheir face and rather than admit it there pushing forward.
Its just another game part of trump and companies fake economy, and your buying it.