sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoOlder tech workers are tapping out, taking early retirementwww.seattletimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square84linkfedilinkarrow-up1362arrow-down11
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minus-squaregreyscaleAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·2 days ago… retirement? I thought we were just gonna lose our jobs and be societally murdered instead.
minus-squareUninvestedCuriosity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 hours agoI’m in this statistic already and found your last bit comforting knowing that it at least will end. For real though a lot of us are also fed up and starting our own boutique i.t things these days.
minus-squaregreyscaleAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 hours agoYeah, its the only thing I’m actually good at and I write code for the sake of the game, it just happens to be that I get paid for it When the jobs go, I’ll be still writing code for the game of it. If I’m being paid to, great. No idea what I’ll be doing if there’s no demand in the post-collapse. Either AI gets great and I’m unneccisary, or its just outsourcing slop again like 2012… Either way I’ll be writing better code without the AI slop…
minus-squaretrackball_fetish@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·1 day agoSome of us in the mid career point actually have. Nothing like back to back to back societal issues fucking your entire life
minus-squaregreyscaleAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 hours agoI have come close to home ownership 3 times. Its just not supposed to happen. I just want to fit A/C…
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 days agoYeah, I got laid off when I was 52 and became a school bus driver (I now make about 1/6 of what I made as a mobile apps programmer). I’m not exactly “retired” but that is what I tell people.
… retirement?
I thought we were just gonna lose our jobs and be societally murdered instead.
I’m in this statistic already and found your last bit comforting knowing that it at least will end.
For real though a lot of us are also fed up and starting our own boutique i.t things these days.
Yeah, its the only thing I’m actually good at and I write code for the sake of the game, it just happens to be that I get paid for it
When the jobs go, I’ll be still writing code for the game of it.
If I’m being paid to, great. No idea what I’ll be doing if there’s no demand in the post-collapse.
Either AI gets great and I’m unneccisary, or its just outsourcing slop again like 2012… Either way I’ll be writing better code without the AI slop…
Some of us in the mid career point actually have. Nothing like back to back to back societal issues fucking your entire life
I have come close to home ownership 3 times. Its just not supposed to happen. I just want to fit A/C…
Yeah, I got laid off when I was 52 and became a school bus driver (I now make about 1/6 of what I made as a mobile apps programmer). I’m not exactly “retired” but that is what I tell people.