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- technology@lemmy.world
- workreform@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/71221312
“AI isn’t capable of taking any jobs away.”
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Good job. Disenfranchise the people who are capable of 3d printing drones and automated turrets, and also capable of programming them to act on desired targets.
Keep it up. Seriously
“AI isn’t capable of taking any jobs away.”
And surely when the AI bubble pops everything will go back to the way it was in 2022 before ChatGPT.
(I have no subscriptions to any cloud-based coding AI currently because I can run Qwen3.8-27B locally on my desktop and it’s perfectly fine for everything I’ve thrown at it so far, it’s just a little slow. If I was a business it wouldn’t cost much to have a server rack that could run the latest big DeepSeek models at a speedy clip. AI is simply not going away at this point even if OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, etc. evaporated tomorrow in a puff of stock fraud.)
You’ve got to get a foot in the door first these days. I started my career as a customer support agent, then moved into a helpdesk position, then into enterprise IT.
After Doge killed my last company, I got a job doing manual labor at my current company until an IT position opened up.
Companies generally like to hire from within because they can often pay below market average. Just treat those jobs as an internship, pad your resume, then start looking for better opportunities.
Companies generally like to hire from within because they can often pay below market average. Just treat those jobs as an internship, pad your resume, then start looking for better opportunities.
That works sometimes and backfires others. No shortage of companies that make the exact opposite call. “well the guy working in department A is more qualified than this outsider… but then we have to find someone to do the job in department A, an outsider lets us just replace the one piece that’s missing”.
I mean maybe it can work, I’m a 40 year old IT vet, every upward move I’ve ever made in my life involved switching companies. Bosses always tell me I’m too good at what I do for them to want me to move up.
Now maybe some do. obviously no matter what the advice we can find someone it worked for, and someone it worked against.
No doubt. Any advice is going to have caveats, and you have to be able to read the room to know whether hard work will pay off. It usually doesn’t hurt to reach out to current employees to see what the culture is like.
But, people do need to temper their expectations of hopping into a high paying salaried role directly out of college if they haven’t networked enough to know a guy.
In my 20 year career I’ve witnessed 1 (one) person get promoted into a tech role after holding a different position at the company.
Job opportunities for junior and intermediate software devs were not great 5 years ago and now ai killed them entirely. My previous employer not only stopped that kind of hiring but fired ~20% of the staff and told seniors to make up the difference with ai.
There’s definitely no one size fits all solution to a saturated job market.
But, I had 10 years of experience in my current IT field, plus 4x letters of recommendation from the owners of my last 3 jobs (it was technically the same job). I sent out over 600 applications, and got a single invitation to a round 1 interview (answer more questions on their hiring site), and maybe 20 rejections. Every other one was just silence.
Basically the only ways to get into the field now are A) get lucky, B) know a guy, C) become a known quantity at the company. I went with B and C (my wife worked there and got me the temp job).
