It's both embarassing to me personally, for feeling like I'm an idiot who can't appreciate the world & how much it offers. But it also makes me sad and mad, is a persistent feeling I've had that the world has peaked, has failed to sustain a broad system of good hard worthwhile jobs that pay pretty well & feel fulfilling. It feels terrible, like we are failing to fulfill an obligation to the future. Hello next-comers, you've arrived, but we have so little for you, sorry.
Honestly I wish I could go back to school. There are so many jobs I think I would enjoy that fit this, but they all are heavily credentialed. i know for sure that I could get so much more out of education now than I could of had I done it when I was a more naive 17/18 year old, but sadly the further you are from that demographic the more expensive it becomes (without gotcha’s at least). Honestly, I really wish I could just redo my life starting from maybe around 16-18.
Software did me good for a while economically, but it looks like that’s over now.
Personally I was doing a fairly glamorous non tech job (engineering super cars like Ferrari, Bentley, Aston Martin , Rolls Royce etc.) and even that was poorly paid in comparison to tech.
Sure, but only one of those is a realistic option, and it’s not the former.
I’ve been watching the local job market near me and it’s pretty dim. Some of the companies near me that usually hire devs aren’t really hiring devs right now, but are still hiring for adjacent business roles (think business analysts, etc.). There are a lot of management roles across all sorts of industries, but the better ones tend to want established domain experts.
Where do you see those? Can you give me some examples? Thank you for your comments.
1) B2B Sales
2) Business Analyst/Systems Analyst/QA
3) Management (mostly retail, logistics, and medical)
I imagine 2) is the easiest for devs who are out of work. Sales might be an option if you have the personality (but B2C sales don’t pay very well). 3) seems tougher because they usually want people with king established domain expertise, but it might be possible.
There seem to be some well paid trades/industrial jobs, but anything paying decent money seem to want very experienced people, probably with catches (the biggest I’ve heard from talking to people are excessive hours in harsh environments). There’s also a handful of well paid marketing positions as well as medical positions, but those are probably going to be a no-go without a background there.
There are definitely plenty of jobs for software engineers that are skilled and can live on a very modest salary.
Does it pay well?
Are there a lot of these jobs available, a shortage of thousands that might make sense for quite a lot of laid off people to pursue this? Or do you think it's good for a few people but not many, otherwise we'll oversaturate the market?