• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    He got in during the nineties and his stock options vested. Now he spends his time restoring vintage Ferraris.

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    These images aren’t relatable at all. What man sits on the porch of a log cabin in a suit surrounded by his pricey luggage without roller wheels on it.

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    Sometimes I think I should have stayed in the trades. Then I remember having to tear hundreds of HVAC smoke dampers out of a new building and replace them with fire and smoke dampers because the boss decided he was just going to whatever instead of what the blueprints called for.

    Then I’m good for a while.

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      HVAC

      I remember when I just graduated from college

      STEM degrees.

      Looking in the newspaper of my major US city.
      All the ads were for HVAC techs. Nobody was looking for Comp Sci or Chem Engineering.
      Almost switched to HVAC.

      Glad I held out for an actual debugging software job

      Pity young people today. Don’t be programmers; there’s no future in it.

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        Tbf, those types of jobs have a higher degree of turnover and thus need slots backfilled more frequently. Trades jobs can be pretty fuckin miserable, especially ones that are incredibly physically demanding as you age.

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          It really used to piss me off when the older techs would make me crawl around in nasty crawlspaces while they stood around and smoked cigarettes.

          I get not wanting to be there but I’m not not about to leave some poor kid who doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing fumbling around in the dark by himself for half the day.

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          I got laid off from my software job then took a physical labor job to make ends meet. I got promoted to management and used my software skills to automate most of my job. This is my recommended career path.

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            Software skills plus domain knowledge is a good combination, and I think it will remain viable in the future. But who the fuck knows?

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              Software skills plus domain knowledge

              Software skills --> Anyone will be able to vibecode a good-enough app within 2-3 years

              Domain knowledge --> Top LLMs already have domain knowledge comparable to specialists in whichever field, and are getting less hallucinatory & more accurate every year.

              Not being a doomer, no idea what policies make sense going forward, but this is what I observe

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      Go away. He’s plenty masculine. He’s a man, and represents men well. Stand-up guy.

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        Haha I dont agree but thats ok :) I would send ryan gosling to pick flowers rather than build a house, if you know what I mean… :)

        He is very feminine.

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          He is very feminine.

          Disagree completely. But the fact that you need to talk about how much masculinity he has speaks volumes to how fragile yours is. You have exposed yourself.

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            You being unable to handle a single persons opinion about this without getting angry… You care sooo much about what I think, someone completely insignificant.

            Just relax a bit. My opinion wont change yours.

            Being this emotional over an opinion someone else has isnt even normal. How are you going to handle a real problem when you get this emotional over a Lemmy comment?

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              Man, your kind was very common on Reddit back in the day. Not a lot of your kind followed to Lemmy so it’s been a while since I’ve bumped into such a specimen. Glad it’s very few these days at least.

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                Its lazy bigotry to think ryan gosling is feminine?

                So everyone has to think ryan is masculine man? That doesnt make any sense.