(April 19, 2016 at 11:45 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(April 19, 2016 at 11:38 pm)scoobysnack Wrote: That's what I want to go into. What languages do you know, or suggest working towards? I don't want to be one of the people who lose my job after making myself obsolete through my own automation haha, so I'm thinking of computer science instead.
You want to avoid being outsource or rightsized? Stay outta technology.
Seriously. Do something that cant be automated or outsourced. If I knew how to do anything else I would - and that's coming from someone with 30+ years in tech.
I might just be jaded after seeing more friend and coworkers than I can count get outsourced or downsized. I stopped counting 15 years ago.
Really? That's scary! I hear ya though things are changing so fast these days. Jobs are becoming obsolete quicker then people think. Read a story of the bank branch going away due to online banking just today. Even in tech, what you learn, will be obsolete in a few years as new techniques and languages are developed. I don't want to go back to school to pay for a full computer science degree, was just thinking of taking some online courses like code academy to learn some language.
What have you witnessed in the tech industry? Even in my company, which I wont disclose, is the one of the biggest companies in it's industry, just lost first place, but they are outsourcing IT out to WIPRO. So now we have all these people coming in with visas from India to work here, but rarely hire a citizen.
