• RoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 hours ago

    I’m not really sure why anyone in tech ever expected job security. The pace at which tech has been advancing and its role changing in our lifetimes is way faster than you could just make a cozy career out of.

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      6 minutes ago

      That’s like saying you don’t understand how anyone expected to make a career in metal work? Surely we would find something better than metal within a couple of hundred years right there’s no way that industry is still exists in a thousand years.

      The pace at which tech has been advancing and its role changing in our lifetimes is way faster than you could just make a cozy career out of.

      Useful development, or just development for the sake of development so the shareholders are happy? Useful being defined as a product that people would still be happy to use in decade from now.

    • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 hours ago

      How old do you think computer Tech’s are? There’s been programmers since the 60s on punch cards. There’s totally careers worth of work there.

    • shiftymccool@piefed.ca
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      11 hours ago

      This is an odd take… I personally know several people that started, worked, then retired as programmers