Translation:
To avoid being unemployable in your 50’s learn COBOL so you can work for a big stupid company or government.
To avoid being unemployable in your 50’s learn COBOL so you can work for a big stupid company or government.
Once out of the umbrella of the FAANGS, there are tons of jobs for SWE, just not at the eye watering salaries.
East Coast, tons of jobs at the 100K range.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/10/09/budget-breakdown-of-a-co...
And if you talk to the people who strongly identify with the MAGA movement, their main concerns are guns, illegal immigration, “persecution because of their Christian beliefs”, and for some strange reason - Disney.
People who know me and one of my friends calls us the “odd couple”. I’m a Black mostly agnostic bleeding heart libertarian capitalist pig who works in tech (including a stint in BigTech), my friend is a White former military high school dropout who is an evangelical Christian, gun loving and rural, who rails against those “illegals”.
But he attends a predominantly Black church and has been married to a deaf Vietnamese woman for two decades who he loves dearly.
I also use to live in a famous “sun down” town in Georgia made famous by Oprah. I’m often in conversations with modern “conservatives”. I don’t argue, I just listen.