Go to trade school.
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
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If you want a good job just learn how to code!
Yeah. The tech industry is imploding as it switches from development to maintenance.
I think we're about to circle back to circa 1000s yurop: "Now, my child, you behave while I try to sell you as a ~~slave~~ FREE ENTREPRENEURIAL COLLABORATOR to mr. Rich Douchebag, as that is the only way to go up the social and financial ladder."
Hopefully: college is bullshit, go to a trade school.
And when you can't find work "But welding pays well! Why aren't you doing it?"
“Go infiltrate your own billionaire’s bunker.”
If you want a house, start saving in middle school.
Career advice for this generation is get wealthy parents
Ahh man all I got was a disabled mom and prison dad.
Think I can trade him for a rich dad to a rich person who wants to claim they had a rough child hood?
“Unionize, join the party, and eat the rich.”
Buy a 3d printer and sell shit on eBay.
Probably "switch jobs often" but who knows, that might still be good advice.
Just be careful when you do, because there's a risk of screwing up your retirement savings. Losing employer contributions that could have kicked in if you held out another 6 months or whatever. (I'm not an expert on this subject by the way, and ymmv)
I'm in IT. It's the advice I wish I'd followed from the beginning.
Once you get comfortable in your job and it becomes routine, you need to find a new one. Keep growing your skill set, and probably take a hefty raise each time.
Don't worry about being a job hopper - it resolves itself easily enough when you don't find the next position for a while.
I so need to do this. Been at the same job for almost 10 years and it feels like everyone else I started with has surpassed me for this reason in terms of salary and position. But i hate applying for jobs in tech so much, having to do the leetcode study bullshit as if I'm still in school and all that. It's so exhausting and annoying. Maybe it's the ADHD, but it's hard to bring myself to sit down and do it.
But also, I could really use more money, it's been impossible to save for a house where I live, and I'd love to be able to have one someday. I know it's not too late, I still have so many years before I retire, but I'm still jealous of you guys that could sit down and more easily do the interview dance every 2-3 years.
Get fired.
That’s how I did it.
Haha that's one way. Seems like it would make it harder to land the next job, though.
Also in IT, I'm not as frequent a job hopper as some but it's how I climbed the ladder to where I am today. Ultimately companies don't give a fuck about you and just care about their profits so they will pay you as little as they can. Your only time to get more $ is when they're vulnerable and hiring cause they need you.
That sounds super stressful to me and you need to have a lot of energy left after your workday to look for a new job. I'm so glad I don't have to do that
Try doing a bachelor next to you job. Dear God, do I long for some rest. I've been slacking on my studies lately, but I only have 50 EC left to do. Anyways, I've got no choice but to change jobs after I get my bachelor. Employers don't give proper raises, they only give unfair wage gaps to new employees. That s how you get the "I've worked here 30 years and the new college kid gets twice my salary" rethoric. That's sadly how it works. So eventhough I'll have my degree next year, I know I won't get paid for it unless I leave. I'll try, because I like my job, but I know they won't accept my offer.
If you want a good job, become a social media influencer. It pays more than most other jobs, and you can be the worst type of person and still make it big.
That seems like survivorship bias. Curious how much the average aspiring influencer goes on to make in the field...
I think there are a lot of fields people are being encouraged to ignore because "it's totally going to be made obsolete by AI any day now". I'm sure some of them ultimately will be, but we still have people doing financial services despite so much of the calculations being handled entirely by software under the hood.
The people pushing this AI revolution concept are those who stand to make money off it, and those who can use it as an excuse for layoffs to save money in the short term before they jump to another company and avoid the consequences.
I remember 14 years ago in high school I was kicking around the idea of becoming a court reporter (type out everything said in court) , but was told "nooo look at Siri, that'll totally replace all that soon!"
No, no it's not. We don't want things like that making choices like that.
Also was told "C and C++ is too old, learn something newer"
People get too excited about new tech, not thinking about why the old tech stands the test of time.
I tell my kids that a) they must graduate high school, and then either go to college or learn a trade. Regardless, they need to be educated.
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