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Corporate Masters: Who needs coders? We have AI.
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I can only speak for my employer …. The ai mandate has actually led to some nice new features for our product. However using it on a daily basis has resulted in a lot of made up metrics and increased tech debt. Everywhere it’s saved us a bit of time, it’s wasted our time elsewhere.
I actually do believe ai can be a useful coding tool, can help coders be more efficient, but it’s not ready to create final products and may never be. It’s just another tool but you have to know what you’re doing, recognize when it needs guidance, and understand that you are the one responsible for doing a good job
I did this. I gave up looking for a job in tech after a year. Luckily, I have a job so I’m not desperate. I just don’t like my job.
Getting a degree? But that’s what started the problem in the first place!
This is all corporate tech stuff anyhow. Inflating an already inflated market destined to be whittled down by AI is probably one of the most short term goals iv ever heard
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tbf going back to school sounds nice. struggling with financial instability, not so much ...
when facing unemployment, the LAST thing I want to do is burn a shitload of money on the absolute fucking racket that is higher education in the USA.
Unless it's for something like HVAC or plumbing or nursing where there's never not a constant need, anyways
HVAC, and every other trade, is only really good money if you own the business doing it. Just theres no big HVAC monopoly so you can actually dream of doing that.
Had warranty work done on an HVAC system that blew up shortly after installation which covered parts, but not labor (what a ripoff, by the way). Paid about $1400 for about 3 hours of work by one guy. Asked him what he got paid, about $20-25 same as everyone else who gets their hands dirty without a degree or hazard pay.
Reclamation costs, EPA certs, having to buy full tanks rather than what i need and the cost of insurance all got me out of my own HVAC business. I do miss the early spring days of 200 dollar house calls to just rinse the leaves down and out of a unit though lol
I wish we could just go back to schools being for people who want to learn about things, and putting employers back in charge of training their work force. Subsidizing a fucking intermediary to provide the basic ticket into the work force...who the fuck came up with that idea?
the problem is employers dont train employees anymore, so they look at "2+years experience required as a first start"
I gotta say, part of that is work visa programs. A very common path I’ve seen is someone getting their college degree in their country, do a couple years work to get sponsored by one of the outsourcing companies, then take a masters degree in the us, so they can enter the country on a student visa and have a head start looking for a job. Now they are looking for a starting job but have a couple years experience and a masters degree.
I can’t fault anyone who takes that path: it seems very successful. But it causes imbalances that don’t work for the rest of us
yea citizens are pretty screwed, as thier job listings almost always is framed in a way to only select from h1-b visa applicants, im betting they are willing to accept one that is lower in the skill setting than what the job listing is claiming they require if they sought visa holders. I think its just to show non-discriminatory praticies.
It's a stop gap, hoping for better times in the future. I did it when I had a physical disability no one could explain, so I couldn't get disability coverage much less any treatment. I ate some loans instead of living on the street or with abusive family. It sucked, but that's the US for you - if you're not making someone money, you're welcome to just go die.
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How are these people going to school without jobs?
Debt, lots of accumulating debt.
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We don’t need any more MBAs.
I actually think we need more people who hate MBAs to go through the degree so we can tell whats bullshit and whats not.
It's almost all bullshit.
The main point of an MBA program is to indoctrinate students into believing that maximizing profit is never predatory, but simply the most efficient means by which to run a business.
There's also some "leadership" filler that is ultimately ignored in favor of profits, and some basic accounting that is essentially learning how to game the numbers to...maximize profits via application of debt and capital chicanery.
-courtesy of Boston U MBA program
MBA programs are mostly about joining the MBA cult. they aren't much for education or learning.
the biggest benefit is the networking you get based on what MBA program you went to.
Tldr; it's all bullshit
So software engineer here. I went back to school in my 40s and got my Executive MBA and graduated in 2024. I knew nothing about how businesses truly worked going in. I learned the basics for accounting, finance, marketing, strategy, entrepreneurship, org behavior, and more.
I'm glad I did it, I learned a lot, but overall it's like the sample platter of topics. I know enough to mostly understand the specialists when they speak, but I'm no expert in any of the topics above. I know enough to be dangerous if I was left to my own devices on any of the topics.
Let me save you all a lot of money. An MBA teaches you to view all business decisions through a finance lense. For non business people reading this, Finance projects forward in time, Accounting looks backward in time. The goal of a business is to maximize profit. You can maximize profit by increasing revenue and/or decreasing costs. If you list our all possible business projects, you pick a collection of projects you believe will maximize profit OVER TIME. Aka the time-value of money.
Now an executive MBA is basically the same as any other MBA program, but it's for people with over a decade in professional experience. I could easily see someone with less real world experience falling into Dunning Kruger. What business people fuck up is their assumptions on their "business opportunities" models. In other words, they don't account for some factor, grossly misunderstand a factor's influence, or don't give two shits because the timeline of a project will extend beyond their tenure. That last point is especially important to understand because on paper the finance might look great, but they won't be at the firm by the time the accounting of a project fully wraps up.
So yeah, the system is ripe for exploitation and bullshit. An incompetent business leader can make decisions that maximize short term wins, and split to another company before the long term losses land.
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Late 40s, highly skilled, trans, unemployed for 2+ years.
I've been down to the final candidate selection a few times now and still haven't been selected yet.
I've hired plenty of people. In general, final candidates are usually all fully capable of doing the job they're applying for. In the end, the hiring manager just gets to pick the one they want to work with most.
I feel like when hiring managers look at me, all they see are problems and risks. Time consuming HR meetings, extra effort making sure people use the right pronouns, judgements from executive leaders who might see a middle manager not doing a good job at leaning into where the winds are headed.
I wonder, even if I spend 3 more years on a secondary degree, whether I'll find myself right back in same situation (talented and surrounded by cowards unwilling to hire me), but now with $200k in new student loan debt.
Oi! Not trans, but queer, also unemployed for over 2 years now.
I used to be an econometrician, so I can tell you:
You, me?
We're not unemployed.
We are 'Not in the Labor Force'.
... we do not count towards the offical unemployment numbers.
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I'm fucking stuck in this economic pit.
better grow roots and learn photosynthesis, then
That would require sunlight and I'm living through dark times.
This article seems to be exclusively about masters degrees or people going back to school for a second degree in a new field, but what I'm curious about is if there's been a similar spike in people going for their first degree. I'm trying to figure out how much of this is people trying to land a job in a recession and how much of it is people trying to make themselves appealing from an immigration perspective. There's definitely a lot of people who feel like getting out of the country is a nonstarter simply because countries only want the kind of labor that comes from obtaining a degree in a field.
it's the fact nobody will hire you for anything unless you have multiple degrees
i dont this applies to undergraduates. people with degrees cant find jobs in whatever field, because the job market is so poor, even before covid.
as an undergrad you would be eligible for grants, scholarships,,,etc with no cost to your own, depending if you are going to a state school, community college pipeline. going to a expensive college that isnt paid for in full would be pretty foolish, if your an older than the average college student.
I’m in that boat. Joined the IT world before the first .com crash, dropped out of school for it and never got a degree. I’m very stuck right now and I hate the career I’m stuck in. Trying to find a way to go back to Chet a degree, maybe open a door or two…
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Oregon Trail Sub-Generation. Always the God Damned Guinea Pigs.
I'm tired, Boss.
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I'm not as educated as a lot of y'all in these comments, but I can't even get hired for retail positions let alone level 1 tech support jobs.
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I have 7 years of oncological research experience with teaching/consulting. 2 years as the sole animal manager at a nonprofit with therapy animals. I can’t find a fucking job. It’s insane. Either I’m overqualified, or I’m lacking some niche experience.
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Where's the leisure society? We have all the resources we need, all the energy we need, and simply put, there just isn't all that much that needs doing that can keep everyone busy.
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resorting to going to school instead of looking for work
I think they looked for work before considering more debt.
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