“get a degree and you’ll have a job” backfired
The opposite is fucking people over lately too. Pure coding jobs are passing people over because they don’t have literally any degree and it’s insane. 10 years of experience but no degree? Pass. Fresh out of a bootcamp and a bachelors in music? You’re hired!
It’s about rewarding people who paid into the system and punishing those who did not.
Oh. There’s been a time when I thought this happens in ex-USSR, but not in your cowboy lands.
The best programmers, sysadmins, and other techies I’ve worked with had humanities degrees. Being a STEMlord who can’t be nice or express yourself well in words will put you at a disadvantage in even the nerdiest of jobs.
other techies I’ve worked with had humanities degrees
My sister, who’s been an occupational therapist, personal assistant and on other ‘soft’ jobs recently got hired as a helpdesk employee just for that reason. Apparently it’s easier to teach a humanist to reset M365 passwords and do simple troubleshooting than teach a techie on how to deal with humans (which is a major part of being an on-call support for anything).
She talks to the customers so the engineers don’t have to.
She has people skills. She is good at dealing with people.
Let’s be real, a lot of people got in in the hopes of appeasing “the market”. What “the market” wanted, and still wants, is an excess of qualified people, so they can more easily pick, choose and abuse the workers. This has been the case for ages.
AI propaganda
The government pushed propaganda to oversaturate STEM to drive down the cost of skilled labor.
It worked as intended.
It didn’t backfire for employers. I’m sure newly-minted coding boot campers depressed wages for everyone.
Yeah imagine putting a decade into something that only existed for three only to find that doesn’t exist anymore compared to the thousand years old profession of chicken. Sources (Long 3x poultry)
