if youre not lovin the arc youre doing it wrong
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Wile Coyote was never quite the same after his final divorce. He found Rebecca with the roadrunner.
You have to do your work outside and either standing or kneeling, and it gets hot as hell because of the heat of the welding. Sometimes you're in vessels. It seems miserable. 82K isn't even that much money for the work, in my opinion. Specialty workers can make more but still...
Not to mention 82k isnt the average. There's plenty of work inside but it's still loud, dirty, construction air nasty eating packed lunches on a bucket bullshit. Trade jobs can make you great money... huge caveat being it's only when you're working for yourself.
$82k
Sorry anon I make about 50% more sitting behind a desk and playing Lego with web services
Welding sounds 50% nicer though. Problem solving, but not head-breaking problems that follow you night and day for weeks on end. And after a project you have a tangible result that is actually generating some kind of value.
When's the last time a web service Lego ever did anything but been a financial black hole for VC funding that actually fails to deliver anything of value to society?
Damn it, I think my cynicism dial got stuck again. Time for bedge.
I literally started learning how to program like months before the whole "AI will take your job on an by the way we don't hire JR devs anymore" so I gave up on it...
I just got to the point where I could consider buying a house months before COVID.
I had thought about joining the military to learn some skills for "free" and graduated highschool exactly when Bush decided Iraq needed to be invaded for ~~oil~~ God knows what reason. Even as a dumb 17 year old I saw right through that and said fuck no.
I completed a trade school 4 months before "the great recession."
If God existed he would be Lucy holding a fucking football and I'm Charlie Brown...
Ai bubble won't last. Stick with it my friend. Will agree though its still not a free ride. The job market recently can be rocky especially if you aren't better than average at coding. Suppose the rest of the job market isn't faring fabulously though either
Becoming a programmer isn't the gold rush free money wild ride it used to be, but programming skills are 100% still in demand. Lots of companies are pretending that they don't need juniors because something something AI, but that's transient-- Either a) the AI bubble is going to collapse, or b) roles and skillsets are going to shift around until they settle into a new paradigm.
That paradigm might have juniors just like before, or it might look like hybrid "people who code" roles that aren't like traditional full-time developers.
In any case, there's still tons of value in learning to code, and I think it's worth sticking to if you like it.
If you don't particularly like it though, then yeah just bail. The skillset will still be handy, but the career path might be a little unstable for a few years.
tell me about your next move?
I'm still trying to figure that one out to be honest. I need to leave the state I'm in if I have any hope for a future that isn't living in someone else's garage.
Also I see your username, you should know what I'm aiming for next so you can screw me! Lol :P
There's a ton of work in green energy and water management.
When Harris wins, there will be even more federal funding being dumped into these sectors. However a ton of that work is either going to be labor intensive or require a specific education (or both).
Also, the software engineering field isn't going to be replaced by AI any time soon (if ever). What will happen is that AI will become a tool of skilled engineers to increase their output efficiency, consistency, and quality.
When Harris wins
I wish I had your optimism lol thanks for the suggestions!
Do you have any investment advice we could reverse?
The service industry is suffering pretty badly at the moment, maybe they can become a server and fast forward us to the point where 70% of restaurants and bars close because one worker can't do the jobs of 4 people. Then after they move on to a new industry we can rebuild the service industry properly.
He's probably driving around in rural areas though. What's the cost of living at your place? Not Silicon Valley, I hope?
Wherever you feel like living + internet. Most of the IT career fields don't need to be in a physical office unless things go catastrophically wrong.
Is there any truth to this comment? Most everyone I know has been forced back to the office within the last couple of years.
Takes some job hunting to find a full remote job, and a willingness to tell an employer to eff off with RTO mandates or you're leaving (and follow through).
Yeah so you don't have job stability because rto is just one stupid decision away and looking for a other job like the one you had takes a lot of time, which you won't have if you quit over rto.
one of the highest workers in demand
A lot of workers are in higher demand, but most of them don't smoke anywhere near as much weed at work.
That's probably why he's not getting paid much. That kind if skilled work is easily in excess of 100k/year
Mostly depends on if you want to do shift work. If you do, easy in most places.
welding > wedding
Webster's dictionary defines wedding as "the fusing of two metals with a hot torch."
And do you, Phyllis, take Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration, to be your lawfully wedded husband?
that's quite perfect ^^
in German they use the word for assembling 2 big mechanical parts together, like the carriage and the body of a car
I don't know German but i love its penchant for just welding words together seemingly more often than other languages
it's the same in English
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