The Morale of Tech Workers Is Plunging as Layoffs Mount

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/tech-layoffs-bli...

Note these two URLs in the article

https://8cmbykf0.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fwww....

What's with the awstrack.me prefix

Is someone tracking who follows these URLs pointing to Blind threads

Imagine how people in less lucrative occupations feel. Some perspective is always nice.

STEM was the hope and yeah, that was a gaslight too

Yea, STEM used to be the safe bet. Now even that is also wonky

I think I'd like to go into industrial or commercial HVAC or electrical. Coding or any sort of office job for a corporation just seems perpetually risky post LLM.

Cool, let us know how it goes. Maybe you'll get in a program before they up the tuition to the sky

> Imagine how people in less lucrative occupations feel

To be fair, SWEs are facing a unique concentration of employment and wage-growth headwinds at the median.