> More than half of tech workers (53%) would steer a newcomer away from their own field, and they stay.
It would be nice to see this survey repeated across professions. In my experience, most people have gripes about their profession because it’s what they know. Only half of respondents saying they would steer newcomers away feels a lot better than what my friends in medicine say all the time. Among my college professor and professor-track friends, this number probably reaches 100%.
I would steer people toward tech at this time (specifically software engineering) because I think the "steering people away" thing has gone too far. Already there is data that college students are pivoting away from CS majors en masse.
And how are you certain that whatever else you're going into is more AI proof? Are you certain that law, healthcare, business consulting, accounting, finance, traditional engineering, and various other things that smart people are pivoting to instead of CS are not going to see demand reduction? If anything, I would wager that everything except developing software is going to be at risk, and the demand for software engineers is at the cusp of exploding.
Now is the most exciting time to be a software engineer since the mid 00s.
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It would be nice to see this survey repeated across professions. In my experience, most people have gripes about their profession because it’s what they know. Only half of respondents saying they would steer newcomers away feels a lot better than what my friends in medicine say all the time. Among my college professor and professor-track friends, this number probably reaches 100%.
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And how are you certain that whatever else you're going into is more AI proof? Are you certain that law, healthcare, business consulting, accounting, finance, traditional engineering, and various other things that smart people are pivoting to instead of CS are not going to see demand reduction? If anything, I would wager that everything except developing software is going to be at risk, and the demand for software engineers is at the cusp of exploding.
Now is the most exciting time to be a software engineer since the mid 00s.
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