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Comment by dhzhzjsbevs | Hacker News Reader

> in real industries

riplol

The world will get by if we have fewer coinbases, SaaS companies and other tech jobs. If we have fewer factories, oil refineries, meat packing plants; there will be shortages and riots.

I mean, hopefully some of those tech jobs are making those oil refineries, factories, meat packing plants more efficient.

Then they're in a "real" industry. How many of them are actually doing that?

I was recently interviewing for a lot of jobs (20 or more) and most of them were in “real” industries. Making factories more efficient, improving logistics, tools for various laboratory facilities to work more consistently and efficiently, etc.

Around 75% of what I encountered touched real products, workers, and production directly.

It seems like there is plenty of that kind of tech out there and in development right now.

The other 4 or 5 companies were strictly internet related, selling digital products to people doing things on computers.

I’m not sure if I encountered that because that’s a reasonable representation of what’s out there right now. I do know I prefer work where I get to support real people doing real things, so to speak. In any case, there are definitely roles like this out there and plenty of companies hiring.

It's amazing how for some people hatred of the political opposite causes glee when tech companies fail and people lose their jobs. People who may not be political and who probably need their job.

All of this being done on internet forums and social media produced and managed by those same people.

I don't blame em. Tech has always thought of itself as a bunch of snowflakes.

Reality is, yes, it's a new industry, but no, it's not special.

Every other industry I've been exposed to has all the same bullshit office politics. The same supposed "in jokes" that only "their industry" would understand.

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