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aidan@lemmy.world 1 month agoUnions 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.