Nearly 300,000 tech employees have been laid off since last year, data shows.

It’s a dark time to be a tech worker right now::Nearly 300,000 tech employees have been laid off since last year, data shows.

  • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    5 months ago

    Bouncing between high paid tech work and driving forklifts and lifting boxes every few years is not fun. Wish this industry was more stable

    • rockstarmode@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      5 months ago

      This hasn’t been my (anecdotal) experience, or that of anyone in my network.

      The industry is unstable no doubt about that, but we’ve never had trouble finding better places to land.

      IMO if you’ve been in tech building your skills for a few years, you really shouldn’t have trouble finding work. '01 was weird but there was still plenty of work, especially in defense. '08 was scary but turned out to be a great time to join a startup. Sometimes it’s a lateral move instead of up, sometimes it requires relocating , but if you’ve been doing good work and building your professional network you should never have to go back to driving forklifts (unless you choose to).

      • rambaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        5 months ago

        Are you actually in the market right now or just making stuff up? You use a lot of qualifying language in this post that makes it sound like you’re just reassuring yourself. It comes off as condescension.

        There are hundreds of thousands of unemployed devs right now, plus all the scrub gold chasers trying to break into the industry. And not everyone has connections that can get them a job. Networking is still a numbers game, it isn’t magic.