We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span.

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

I found this thought funny. A few years ago everyone was all learn to code so you don’t lose your job! Now there wont be any programming jobs in 10 years. But we will need a lot of manual labor still.

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mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Get a construction job so you can continue to enjoy coding

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PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Definitely longer than 3 years but yeah. I saw the writing on the wall when I chose a major and realized they’d been pushing “learn to code!” For about 10 years at that point.

Not that deciding to study humanities was any better financially lol, but at least it didn’t pigeonhole me with a hard-skills education

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10001110101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I think there’s a massive oversupply of software engineers world-wide, and investors and executives are heavily pushing offshoring to countries where there are even more engineers that are even more desperate to find work. The ideology or focus of the entire US investor/executive class seems to have shifted as soon as Musk gutted Twitter. I fear this may be another, “these jobs aren’t coming back,” kind of thing the manufacturing industry went through. Perhaps we’ll see a boom of bootstrapped start-ups ran by engineers (or preferably worker-cooperatives), but that’s extremely hard to do.

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ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Well my knee is injured for the past 3 weeks and counting so I don’t think I’m going to be doing any manual labor any time soon, I think I’m going to keep at my work from home programming job instead.

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pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The two things are related

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