I need to "swap" careers (I have none), is getting into IT a meme?
>market completely saturated and as impossible to get a job as now
>if you become a dev you have to do gay fucking code tests and go through an even more horrendous recruiting process (I hate applying for jobs)
all in all it seems fucking horrible to be in IT? but I still need an above average income
should I go into business/banking/insurance? this is fucking gay
also, I'm not becoming a fucking tradie (In europe it's horrendous)

tldr should I get into IT or some other field to earn some bux?

>>105571677 (OP)
If you have to ask then it's not for you. so fuck off

>>105571677 (OP)
It's easy enough, just get an A+ and Net+ cert. If you've worked retail or in fast food for a while you can add that to your resume as customer service experience, which is what most of those places want because you'd be working helpdesk to start out.

>>105571677 (OP)
getting into tech was a great idea 5 years ago and it currently no longer is. from what ive heard getting into accounting is a great idea right now but who knows what the situation is 5 years from now

the problem is that the economy works on wacky magic rules right now so its very hard to anticipate what will come to pass in the future. the situation is quite tenuous and we would need some really smart people in charge to make sure there is a very smooth recession with a soft landing, but right now all the people in charge are either "i already got my bunker so its not my problem" wealthy types, "just 1 more quarter bro" politician types and "what if we made it even MORE retarded" populist types

>>105571677 (OP)
>>105572053
oh you said youre from europe then i dont know. tech is not too bad in europe in my largely anecdotal experience, aside from the obvious effects of the recession and austerity. my hope is that in a few years, the US recovers, becomes more racist towards indians and outsources to my economic area (we are white but poor by american standards)

>>105571677 (OP)
this is the era where you need to learn how to scam boomers with AI bullshit

>>105571762
>you'd be working helpdesk to start out.
and then what? what do I level up to? network admin type shit?

>>105572053
>getting into tech was a great idea 5 years ago and it currently no longer is
this is the general consensus here you need years of experience

>tech is not too bad in europe in my largely anecdotal experience
it seems really bad, everyone already graduated after the coof and nobody hires fresh noobies but idk

>>105573907
>nobody hires fresh noobies but idk
oh yeah its trash for fresh noobies in europe but historically that has pretty much always been the case. its already bad enough hiring juniors but in EU its harder to pipfuck them and fire them if they suck, and most of them do. i would not hire a single one of my classmates in the college i went to, and afaik almost none of them got industry jobs.

basically if you're a fresh junior then you must learn the way of the ancient indian and basically lie or get nepo hired your way to at least 2-3 yoe

>>105571677 (OP)
Man, are people so retarded they think IT is no longer a good career? Like what's the alternative, English degree for working in McDonald's? lmao

>>105571677 (OP)
getting a job has become a meme.
they no longer exist and everyone has given up.

>>105574478
being a farmer
learn to hoe

>>105574478
yeah i was under the impression it is the most practical straightforward option for someone who just wants to have a decent job but apparently its impossible

what else? drive trucks? become a nurse? welfaremax?

>>105571677 (OP)
You will never be a real programmer. You have no commits, you have no pull requests, you have no public repos. You are a low IQ brown man twisted by an unearned comp sci degree and coding bootcamps into a crude mockery of nature's autism.

All the “validation” you get is two-faced and from bots. Behind your back people call you a useless DEI hire. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “tech bros” laugh at you behind closed doors.

Real programmers are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of forum posts have allowed programmers to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even devs who “pass” have no creative output and excessively verbose with AI generated tech buzzwords. Your GitHub profile is a dead giveaway, and even if you manage to score a 3 month internship at some scam startup, they'll lay you off the second they find out that you haven't completed any non school related projects.

You will never be happy. You cope by saying that your bullshit software is using a "proprietary test framework" so you can't open source it, but deep down you know it's because you don't want people to see your incompetence where all you did was push README updates over and over, and that the core codebase was stolen off an open source GPL licensed project which you're shamelessly profiting off.

Eventually it will be too much to bear. You'll buy a spoofed business phone number and start cold calling old people into redeeming your gift card scam.

This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.