re: NVIDIA CEO: Next gen should lean more toward biology, education, manufacturing, or farming

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People with actual skills are going to be able to make some serious bank in the next 10-20 years. Plumbers, electricians, HVAC, welders, machinists, etc. People with worthless degrees will be boned though.

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What’s serious bank? Because most will be doing like 60k.

This has been said for years now and there never been that big boom that people keep claiming for “skilled laborers”

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This, and unless you own your own business, trades would be back-breaking

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No. If you're 45 and still plumbing a toilet, you've failed. The entire way you make money is running your own trucks. I'd flush my degree down the toilet in exchange for the trades. I ran cable pre-drywall, and it's not that bad, even in Louisiana.

If someone would have told me that about plumbing, electrical or HVAC, I never would have bothered with a BS.

The point isn't to pull cable or snake drains, it is to run trucks of people 20 years younger than you that can pull cable and snake drains.

This is nothing more than a poor sales pitch for AI which has proven to be really, really bad. AI is a threat to no one in the foreseeable future.

I am pretty fricking sick of these nerds constantly toiling away on their calculators and excel spreadsheets. They can't leave shite alone. Robot dogs. Robot intelligence. Robot drones. Robot crops. Fake meat. Instant replay in baseball. frick off, nerds.

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I am pretty fricking sick of these nerds constantly toiling away on their calculators and excel spreadsheets.

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To be fair, no self respecting nerd is using calculators or Excel very much.

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law firm or cpa firm?

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Edited, (Opex), for one. I have to pay a lawyer from SMU $150k a year to discharge car bankruptcies. Or I can pay a dude that can do things $60k (or less) to generate the same amount of profit.

Also, it's very easy to manage blue collar workers. I don't mean that to be insulting, but get them paid, get them home, and don't treat them like garbage, they're mostly happy. Let's think about mostly female CPAs and lawyers. How different is the work experience, do you think? Who would you like to manage? At least a latino plumber isn't going to try to sue me for harassment.

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have a daughter that will be a SR in high school in August. Trying to help her figure out what to do is something I've been struggling with. She's not exactly going to be a plumber.

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We had an excellent woman plumber in HSV, AR. She took over the business from her father who did it part-time while working as a prison guard. She even came out herself to fix/replace odds and ends when we were selling even though she was about ready to give birth.

Of course the generational thing helps and I’m gonna guess that OP daddy is not a plumber, so probably not gonna work out as well.

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People with actual skills are going to be able to make some serious bank in the next 10-20 years. Plumbers, electricians, HVAC, welders, machinists, etc.

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Trade skills will make bank for sure.

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People with worthless degrees will be boned though.

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As they should. I hope this contracts colleges and universities from offering worthless degrees they know are worthless to start with, and they shrink in size to where they are only offering degree programs in needed areas of society.

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These are definitely some crazy times in the world of tech right now.

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fricking hate the nerd age.

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AI still isnt as good as a human at coding.

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It's garbage at helping with SQL coding and analytics. Snowflake put on a big presentation and couldn't get it to write simple queries correctly.

It's many years away in some sectors.