Comment on About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

WalkableProgrammer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Terevos@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Who told you that? AFAIK that was definitely never true about computer tech jobs.

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  • spudwart@spudwart.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can vouch, everyone told me growing up that computer jobs were a safe and stable choice because “everyone needs computers.”

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That may be true with IT departments but maybe not as necessarily for developers

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      • joemo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Are these actually developers getting laid off? I recall seeing similar posts like this last year and it turns out they just laid off middle management and sales positions, and kept the actual devs

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        IT support by staff like sysadmins can hardly be replaced in the near future.
        I don’t see AI being able to setup a whole environment itself.

        Creative jobs on the other hand…

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      • spudwart@spudwart.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I agree, but when most of my “elders” growing up believed computers to be this magical voodoo money printer box that just happens to go on facebook, It’s not suprising they believed any job relating to a computer was safe and stable.

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    • Terevos@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s definitely a good choice. And there will always be jobs. But job security is pretty minimal.

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it’s true for the career rather than the job, because it’s not hard to find another job that is still paid way better than the average career.

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