This is AI slop, btw.
Don’t trust any of the numbers in that article.
Holy fuck. I need a full-time job. I’ve been trying to get away from tech. I’m 40 years old and looking for entry-level jobs. I got AWS and project management certs. Everywhere is just crumbling in America. The only gig I’ve found after a year is working for minimum wage part-time at a grocery store.
It’s honestly never too late to get into a trade. I once had a 52yr old 2nd term apprentice, so it is possible if you can find somewhere looking, and perhaps there might be somewhere local to you that would assist you finding said employer.
With tech background + say… electrical, you’ll do well.
Edit: perhaps look around for local union offices, any union really, doesn’t have to be a trade specifically
I’ve been trying to get into tech for a year now. I’m 36 and been a truck driver for 8 years or so. It is just as horrible to get into tech as anywhere.
My Brother is in a similar situation and just gave up in February, went to work for himself repairing small engines.
Surprisingly, he’s doing well repairing everything from weed whackers to generators. Point is, if you can pick up a trade skill, you’ll be golden.
I’m looking into getting my Insurance Adjuster license or going back to school to learn how to weld.
your competing with over 50 on those entry levels although you likely have the edge there. once households start falling its going to be such a domino. I mean we are actively in the domino now we just have not seen how ugly its going to be yet. no food or healthcare unless you can get nonexistent jobs in the us come january (well snap right now)
I’m 40 years old and looking for entry-level jobs. I got AWS and project management certs.
Entry level job pipelines got eviscerated with automation and AI. I have high end versions of the kind of work you’re going for, but the pathway for how to got here is gone. Even our mid-tier skill folks are having more difficulty, but usually finding work. High tier skill level is still doing well and expanding, but I’m under no illusion this will last forever. It will come for my job too eventually, and I’m prepared for it now.
The future of IT careers is going to look very strange.
Good lord, I have a PMP and PMI-ACP certs.
If you have PMP certs you’ve usually got 3 years of PM experience already. Are you saying even with all your certs and experience, you’re still looking for entry level just to land a PM job?
I have more than 3 years of PM experience, just not the job title. You don’t need to have the job title to qualify just team leader experience on projects. I was doing project management work while being a senior developer. I started by getting the CAPM. Also, since it was an Agile environment, I qualified for the PMI-ACP. I have a Professional Scrum Master I as well.
Unfortunately, since I don’t have the job titles, I have to start at the bottom. I was hoping it would at least get my foot in the door.
UPS: Executing a massive rollout to cut 30,000 jobs. Court documents revealed the imminent closure of 22 package processing facilities across 18 states (including major hubs in Atlanta and Dallas) as the carrier winds down its Amazon volume and aggressively shifts to automated fulfillment.
While true, Amazon has been running us around ever since we took them up. They gave us so much volume for such miniscule pay that UPS was paying extra on overtime and grievances that having the Amazon volume wasnt even worth it. Also UPS has a harder time cutting jobs due to the union. We’ve had i think 3 voluntary buyouts to get us to walk away, the last one was 150k straight up, for drivers.
Which politicians are calling for a permanent basic income?
Doesn’t list software?
Software has never been considered stable, as the article mentions in the first paragraph.
It’s been stable for me for ~20 years. 🤷♂️ not recently though. Everyone needed software. Not everyone needed JavaScript users.
I’m glad to hear you’ve found such exceptional stability, but the norm is closer to 1-2 years.
Try comparing it to other jobs on the site, they all seem to be like that for some reason. Not sure if that’s a quirk of their dataset or real
There are over 325,319 software engineers currently employed in the United States.
I doubt it’s that low, because in the past two years more than that number have been laid off.
