Published earlier this year, but still relevant.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    0% of the fault lays on the students who got the degrees they were told were in demand by every single adult in ther life.

    This was a coordinated push by our government and tech sector to drive down the cost of skilled labor by oversaturating the field.

    I say this as a CS major that was forced to work fast food for 6 years until I could find a shitty tech support job and work my way up from there, there was never a single opportunity for me to be a programmer like I intended.

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      There is always free time to self educate. Being a programmer means constantly keeping up with the news, new technologies, and adapting to new standards to keep the code clean, maintainable, extendable, readable, and relatively fast.