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Imagine graduating in medecine and your employer respects you to be an expert at everything all at once that is related to the human body and being able to perform open heart and brain surgery and doing x-ray imaging and MRIs and being a gynecologist and an an optometrist and a pharmacist all at once.

That’s what being in IT is like. You’re expected to know how to program microcontrollers to mainframes to fucking VCRs and knowing every programming language ever created since electronic computers exist as well as networking and cloud technology and databases, etc. AND you have to be certified in all these things to prove you know them on top of your degree.

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riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

You’re expected to know how to program microcontrollers to mainframes to fucking VCRs and knowing every programming language ever created since electronic computers exist as well as networking and cloud technology and databases, etc. AND you have to be certified in all these things to prove you know them on top of your degree.

So there’s a problem even worse than this: When you have all those skills and more (I do 👍) employers expect to pay you the salary of someone who knows just one of those things.

Like, I was a professional hacker, a systems administrator (both Unix/Linux and Windows), I know networking, have administered/maintained databases, I’m also an award-winning web developer (I know the usual web stuff plus Python, Rust, and a few other things), an embedded developer (C, C++, and Rust), and I can even engineer, design, and program an entire product from scratch that didn’t exist before (see: youtu.be/iv6Rh8UNWlI?si=dG15yQlQpfNGCDal ). That includes designing/engineering the circuit board.

Do I get paid for knowing all these things? No. If I apply for any job you know what employers say when they reject me?

Overqualified

So you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t!

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- jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You dumb down your resume. Leave a bunch of that shit off. Only put what applies for the job you are looking for.
  
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  - riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, that’ll get me the job but it’ll still have the same problem: Only getting paid to have knowledge of just one thing.
    
    Companies don’t hire generalists that can get a lot of different work done. They hire specialists that are like cogs in a machine. That way they’re much easier to replace and a lot cheaper too.
    
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- chellomere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Hey, I saw the stellar review of your keyboard, is it possible to buy somewhere?
  
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