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    1. Dan Luu‏ @danluu 7 Nov 2018
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      I wonder how many people were convinced to avoid engineering and CS by these doom and gloom essays that were popular from the 90s until 2010-ish: https://web.archive.org/web/20070314160651/http://www.halfsigma.com/2007/03/why_a_career_in.html …pic.twitter.com/5uWlm0SPw2

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      Dan Luu‏ @danluu 7 Nov 2018
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      I remember looking to the internet for advice on careers during high school (around '00). There were so many essays by engineers saying that they were warning their own children away from engineering because it was doomed by outsourcing. Go into something stable, like law!

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        2. Moser Michael‏ @MichaelMoser20 15 Nov 2018
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          There were some people I knew who quit programming for real when the internet boom came to an end; but really I didn't see any hard data and don't know how that compares with other professions.

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        3. Dan Luu‏ @danluu 15 Nov 2018
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          Yeah, same. Also, people who were at defense contractors and got hit by post-cold-war cutbacks and couldn't get jobs outside of defense. I suspect this isn't so different from other industries, but I don't know where I'd get the numbers to check.

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        1. luquipuqui‏ @luqui 7 Nov 2018
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          Now it's taken for granted that at least half of your job is learning. How many other professions are like this?

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        2. Justin Weiss‏ @justinweiss 7 Nov 2018
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          100%. I remember it being a _huge_ topic among engineers in my CS program in the early 2000’s. I almost switched to finance!

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        3. Noah Gibbs‏ @codefolio 7 Nov 2018
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          Yeah. There was that "my job went to India" book, among other things. Now engineers warn their daughters away from engineering for other reasons... We'll see how that one ages.

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        1. R.I.Pienaar‏ @ripienaar 7 Nov 2018
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          TBF it was not disingenuous- the industry then was gripped by fear of outsourcing and there was a long string of companies going under as a result. It was real and cynics claimed outsourcing would fail etc but they weren’t given the time of day then

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        1. Yao Yue 岳峣‏ @thinkingfish 8 Nov 2018
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          I wasn’t in the US then but plenty of talk about how programmers can only find jobs when they are in their 20s and 30s. And everybody was reminding me how doubly bad that would be for a woman.

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          I was so close to being a child programmer. A family friend handed me a programming book in 2000, with the fair warning that it’s “going out of business.” I never picked it back up until undergrad.

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