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I love my job and can’t picture myself in another career but it does suck after being told that this field was the most stable career
Who told you that? AFAIK that was definitely never true about computer tech jobs.
Can vouch, everyone told me growing up that computer jobs were a safe and stable choice because "everyone needs computers."
That may be true with IT departments but maybe not as necessarily for developers
Are these actually developers getting laid off? I recall seeing similar posts like this last year and it turns out they just laid off middle management and sales positions, and kept the actual devs
The Linkedin layoffs today were mostly engineering people, although a chunk of them were middle management. Not sure though if they were operations people (IT running the systems) or devs.
Ah interesting, thanks!
I agree, but when most of my "elders" growing up believed computers to be this magical voodoo money printer box that just happens to go on facebook, It's not suprising they believed any job relating to a computer was safe and stable.
It’s true to an extent. It largely depends on what exactly you do with the compiuters. Devs are the easiest to layoff because there are a ton of them and a lot of fresh graduates are programmers. If you’re in a more specialized field in tech, you have pretty good job security.
Do not question the elders of the internet.
IT support by staff like sysadmins can hardly be replaced in the near future.
I don't see AI being able to setup a whole environment itself.
Creative jobs on the other hand...
Developers are often the ones setting up the environments now via things like Terraform. IT is still needed for on-prem work though.
That's what cloud services are for.
And who sets up those? If sysadmin jobs are killed for on premise at companies at the very least they will be needed for datacenter work.
It's definitely a good choice. And there will always be jobs. But job security is pretty minimal.
It's true tho. I am getting laid off after about a year, and have been for the past 5 years in development. All big companies. I am a contractor, so they can just end my contract in a blink of an eye and pay me for the work I didn't create an invoice for yet.
I've always been able to find a new, and better paying job, withing a week.
An alternative is to work for a contractor company that basically lends you to bigger companies. They usually find you a new job within a day, and let you choose even, because they have a record of what you are capable of.
IT, at the moment, have the highest chance of not being unemployed.
I think it's true for the career rather than the job, because it's not hard to find another job that is still paid way better than the average career.