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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who told you that? AFAIK that was definitely never true about computer tech jobs.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can vouch, everyone told me growing up that computer jobs were a safe and stable choice because "everyone needs computers."

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That may be true with IT departments but maybe not as necessarily for developers

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah interesting, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Do not question the elders of the internet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what cloud services are for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Developers are often the ones setting up the environments now via things like Terraform. IT is still needed for on-prem work though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's definitely a good choice. And there will always be jobs. But job security is pretty minimal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.