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[+] 96 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    OMG you're right! I do look like Ryan Gosling.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Sometimes I think I should have stayed in the trades. Then I remember having to tear hundreds of HVAC smoke dampers out of a new building and replace them with fire and smoke dampers because the boss decided he was just going to whatever instead of what the blueprints called for.

    Then I'm good for a while.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    HVAC

    I remember when I just graduated from college

    STEM degrees.

    Looking in the newspaper of my major US city.
    All the ads were for HVAC techs. Nobody was looking for Comp Sci or Chem Engineering.
    Almost switched to HVAC.

    Glad I held out for an actual debugging software job

    Pity young people today. Don't be programmers; there's no future in it.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Tbf, those types of jobs have a higher degree of turnover and thus need slots backfilled more frequently. Trades jobs can be pretty fuckin miserable, especially ones that are incredibly physically demanding as you age.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I got laid off from my software job then took a physical labor job to make ends meet. I got promoted to management and used my software skills to automate most of my job. This is my recommended career path.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Software skills plus domain knowledge is a good combination, and I think it will remain viable in the future. But who the fuck knows?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    Software skills plus domain knowledge

    Software skills --> Anyone will be able to vibecode a good-enough app within 2-3 years

    Domain knowledge --> Top LLMs already have domain knowledge comparable to specialists in whichever field, and are getting less hallucinatory & more accurate every year.

    Not being a doomer, no idea what policies make sense going forward, but this is what I observe

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  • It really used to piss me off when the older techs would make me crawl around in nasty crawlspaces while they stood around and smoked cigarettes.

    I get not wanting to be there but I'm not not about to leave some poor kid who doesn't know what the hell he's doing fumbling around in the dark by himself for half the day.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He's way overdressed for that.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    He got in during the nineties and his stock options vested. Now he spends his time restoring vintage Ferraris.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    LOL. Holy damn this meme is me to a tea.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    He certainly has that thousand-yard stare

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  • I haven't seen Gosling on a boat since high school

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Jesus, what IT dept. are you working at, and how do I get there;) around here, the most attractive specimens are those under 35 BMI and practice personal grooming.

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  • [+] -27 points 1 year ago* (5 children)
  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Go away. He's plenty masculine. He's a man, and represents men well. Stand-up guy.

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  • [+] -18 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Haha I dont agree but thats ok :) I would send ryan gosling to pick flowers rather than build a house, if you know what I mean... :)

    He is very feminine.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I expect the phrase "he/she goslinged" to soon become a thing to describe IT people who have quit.

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