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Originally Posted by Rochard
Here we go. "All of our jobs are going to be replaced".
They said this all through the 1990s. "Computers are coming and we don't need office workers". The one that stuck out the most was accountants. "Who will need accountants when we have spreadsheets". Well, who is going to use those spreadsheets?
In the end we did see some force reduction in some fields. Some companies were able to do more with less. But at the same time... they had hire more people... One office I worked at had an IT department and a Networking department. At the same time, new companies were started - computer stores, computer classes, programmers, software designers....
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web dev saved my ass from a life of IT hell. i was a few years into an on-call hardware/network repair career when the web started getting noticed. it was a lot easier than network troubleshooting, but most of my coworkers stayed in hardware.
web dev has matured and there's more tools to make it easier, but people still have to build and operate the tools. AI, sex robots, gloryhole vending machines will all need programmers.
those accountants had to learn spreadsheets. the ones who didn't work for the mafia lol.. whether you are a programmer or operator, keep learning new skills. the lowest level chaff always gets cut. don't be that
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