I work in a niche company in a niche industry mostly with a nearly-obsolete programming language. I have worked for the same company for an extremely long time by programmer standards, basically right out of high-school. I have not looked for work in a very long time.
Reading HackerNews lately, the market looks pretty grim. I am reading people claim it is worse than 2001 - which is hard to contemplate.
And it strikes me that should I get fired, it’s quite likely I will never be employed as a programmer again!
Feels worth discussing, given how many of us write code for a living.
[Question] Programmers, How Bad Is It out There?
I work in a niche company in a niche industry mostly with a nearly-obsolete programming language. I have worked for the same company for an extremely long time by programmer standards, basically right out of high-school. I have not looked for work in a very long time.
Reading HackerNews lately, the market looks pretty grim. I am reading people claim it is worse than 2001 - which is hard to contemplate.
And it strikes me that should I get fired, it’s quite likely I will never be employed as a programmer again!
Feels worth discussing, given how many of us write code for a living.