Programming labor market
Half the people who *could* code don’t want to because it is boring
Half the people who *do* code shouldn’t because they’re not really up to the challenge
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I’m mostly in the doesn’t code/shouldn’t code quadrant.
If you’re in this quadrant despite having an engineering background and being competent enough at other aspects of it., it’s called being a squib. As in Harry Potter.
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What about someone who could, do, and up to, but is so out of phase with the market that there are no marketable skills there?
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You have marketable skills. You lack marketable demands.
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Sure... What are the demands these days? Web development and Python? The latter is incompatible with my brain, and i'll have to write a bloody web browser from scratch to have a chance of getting the former.
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You’re a backend guy. Make a crypticuurency or OS or game engine or something.
OS? Done it. Easy in theory, suicide by drivers in practice. Game engine? Done it. Fun to play with, goes obsolete before it's done, good luck making people like it. Cryptocurrency? Death by a thousand little details, each of which rip you apart by consensus failure. FULL NOPE.
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