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re: WSJ: Tech Layoffs Just Keep Coming - Microsoft, Snap, Zoom, Google, Amazon, eBay, etc.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 1:12 pm to dewster
Posted on 2/6/24 at 1:12 pm to dewster
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Honestly there is probably a lot of very lucrative work in Texas, Oklahoma, and south Louisiana for welders and fabricators
A good mobile diesel mechanic could make as much as he wanted around here.
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Posted on 2/6/24 at 1:14 pm to dakarx
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Trying to get my son to look into more hands on trades as well. I know welders that make $150K or more. BIL did underwater welding here in NOLA for many years, made absolute bank, took the money up north and retired.
Keep in mind that most public school systems will train him for essentially free. Vocational/tech schools at the high school level are vastly underrated. Kids who take it seriously can come out of high school with immediately marketable skills, get a decent job, and have the company pay for their continued training/education.
We, as a country, have severely neglected our trade schools ar that level.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 1:14 pm to Vermeer20x22
Yet...they want us to believe there were +353k jobs created in Jan...my arse!!!!
Posted on 2/6/24 at 1:16 pm to NIH
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This is why I’m sending my boy to trade school
HVAC and electrician are the way to go and plumber would be 3rd.
This post was edited on 2/6/24 at 1:17 pm
Posted on 2/6/24 at 1:19 pm to NIH
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The wealthiest guys I know are plumbers and welders. I’m sitting in a cubicle eating wheat thins while they’re taking their ole ladies to Texas Roadhouse and Destin.
As much as there is a demand for blue collar labor, that's a young man's game. Being on your feet all day working with your hands for 50+ hours week is not sustainable once you hit your mid 40s.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 1:22 pm to dakarx
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BIL did underwater welding
Underrated most dangerous job in the world. Those giant catfish around the bottom of local lock and dams ain’t no joke.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 1:30 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Keep in mind that most public school systems will train him for essentially free.
If by free you mean tens of thousands for hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery then yea it’s free.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 1:30 pm to NYNolaguy1
Yup. My FIL hasn’t figured out a way or doesn’t want to transition his business and now his body is falling apart while he continues to grind
On a separate note, I work in tech. Tons of great people looking right now. Bottom line as much as AI is a story, half of these jobs or more never should have existed. They were created by private equity or over hiring in response to the pandemic and in some cases false market demand that was never going to keep up.
I have dealt with several groups explaining to me why they made cuts that were completely obvious from the outside.
Sucks for the people
On a separate note, I work in tech. Tons of great people looking right now. Bottom line as much as AI is a story, half of these jobs or more never should have existed. They were created by private equity or over hiring in response to the pandemic and in some cases false market demand that was never going to keep up.
I have dealt with several groups explaining to me why they made cuts that were completely obvious from the outside.
Sucks for the people
Posted on 2/6/24 at 1:30 pm to JohnnyKilroy
No kid with a nose ring or blue hair would be allowed in my shop
Posted on 2/6/24 at 1:38 pm to Buckeye Backer
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Yet...they want us to believe there were +353k jobs created in Jan...my arse!!!!
A year from now they will adjust the Jan 2024 numbers down.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 1:43 pm to dewster
Elon Musk was ahead of the curve. Everyone else in tech is just following his lead
Posted on 2/6/24 at 1:47 pm to MyRockstarComplex
Might be a bloodbath in the near future.
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“Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status.” “The True Believer,” Eric Hoffer
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“Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status.” “The True Believer,” Eric Hoffer
Posted on 2/6/24 at 2:01 pm to dewster
But but but the BLS job report said
Posted on 2/6/24 at 2:03 pm to dewster
If they would just learn to code......
...oh, wait....
...oh, wait....
Posted on 2/6/24 at 2:05 pm to dewster
Don’t pay those student loans yet.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 2:07 pm to NIH
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This is why I’m sending my wife's boyfriend's boy to trade school
FTFY, king.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 2:19 pm to jclem11
Remember when the metaverse was the thing big tech was going all in on? 
Posted on 2/6/24 at 3:04 pm to The Boat
quote:Some of yall act like dipshites on here sometimes...they are getting rid of sales, marketing and administrative resources not developer/engineers. There is still a shortage of technical resources in the job market.
It's kind of nice to see tech have to bend the knee a little after they became the newest "my job is untouchable and the future" fart sniffers.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 4:21 pm to dewster
Cutting covid bloat
Posted on 2/6/24 at 4:26 pm to dewster
What kind d 0f tech jobs. Not every job at a tech company is computer related.
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