Keep in mind that most of you here on
/. are outliers. You do work that doesn't require you to be onsite.
And that is why we are being offshored so much.
If any of you locals had any brains, you would be screaming as to why you need to be in the office talking to your colleagues.
Too bad, 1997 called and said, "You snooze; you lose!"
I was back there. It was "send shit to India for code monkey work and at half price!"
Then it became, "they are pretty good. We don't need competent Americans anymore."
And now I am seeing, "We got Rock Stars in India! Bally Stars! for a third the price!!"
Boiled frog does exist. But it's cross generational.
Gen-X here. I heard the wonderful things from Boomers about working hard and studying.
It's all about the bottom line. Us "average" (in CS) people have no chance anymore. We used to be able to be maintenance programmers, test, admin, fuck - even cable runners
But that's gone now. If you're not A+ Material at a top ten school, just fucking give up this profession. Most employers won't hire from State because they only hire from "Top Schools.". A 4.0/4.0 from State means a dead end test job - at best. And you will never get out of test. The snobbery of this god forsaken profession was there when I started decades ago.
I wish I had constructive advice - but I don't.
There are what? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebalance.com%2Fcur...
Almost 11 million unemployed? I do not know about you, but I haven't noticed. So as far as I'm concerned, 11 million people have bullshit jobs that add nothing to our economy. Now, I'm NOT saying their LIVES are worthless but just their jobs.
As far as I'm concerned, it throws much of what I learned about the efficiency of the Free Markets. If millions can be put out of work without notice to our way of life - then millions are redundant.
And that thought leads me down a VERY dark rabbit hole.