So that’s like 8 years of “we need warm bodies” against 10 years of no work and 8 years of it being not great but not awful out of the last 26 years, and the overlords are COMPLETELY bought in to paying any price to replace you with a robot going forward.
This is a very short paraphrase of exactly what I was just reading in Capital about the English cotton trade, lol
+1 to this. It matches my experience as well where 2003 to 2007 was a slow rebound after the dot com bust and post-9/11 recession, 2007 to like 2010 was a fucking disaster. 2011 to about 2014 was slow grind back to “normal” and then 2014 to like 2020 was a really hot market. 2020 to about 2023 was just weird, because tech was absolutely insane while everyone else was getting fucked, and then from 2023 to now has been “oh now it’s our turn to get fucked” and it’s just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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This is a very short paraphrase of exactly what I was just reading in Capital about the English cotton trade, lol
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My dad was a coder who graduated in 77 (I think) (back when it was a subset of electrical engineering at the local university) and did ok for himself.
I on the other hand have not been able to find work in the field
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I do have to pay the bills in the meantime. Maybe carpentry? Idk
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Unfortunately, electrician apprenticeships are bonkers competitive here. I did look into it though.
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+1 to this. It matches my experience as well where 2003 to 2007 was a slow rebound after the dot com bust and post-9/11 recession, 2007 to like 2010 was a fucking disaster. 2011 to about 2014 was slow grind back to “normal” and then 2014 to like 2020 was a really hot market. 2020 to about 2023 was just weird, because tech was absolutely insane while everyone else was getting fucked, and then from 2023 to now has been “oh now it’s our turn to get fucked” and it’s just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
I fucking hate this industry but I am trapped