Or it needs to be a profession.
Licensed professional engineers are expected to push back on requests that endanger the public and face legal liability if they don’t. Software has hit the point where failure is causing the economic damage of a bridge collapsing.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
It needs unionizing. Unfortunately it pays too well and is filled with retarded libertarians.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Casual hard R slur in chat
Zeoic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Linus?
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Apparently a snowflake deleted my comment too lol
GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Snowflake? Why are mentally disabled folks ok to make fun of? They didn’t pick it or do it, and it has nothing to do with good or bad politics.
Make fun of things people choose to do. Not shit they were born with.
aidan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Unions often create barriers to new people entering a field and driving wages down. This is an issue for many devs, like me, because I don’t have a degree, I’m self taught and freelance- I’m worried I’d be forced out of the field or into more formal employment by licensing or other requirements. Neither of which I want.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Yeah every time I’ve ever looked into it there’s always someone talking about “protecting the field from amateurs”. And usually that means protecting the field from people who don’t have a degree.
I actually do have a degree but it’s in forensics. I just let them fill the blank in for themselves and let them think it’s digital forensics.
aidan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Which I really don’t get, because to my knowledge no disproportionate amount of problems has been caused by self-taught devs.
It really feels more like either elitism or wanting to protect wages.