“get a degree and you’ll have a job” backfired
The best programmers, sysadmins, and other techies I’ve worked with had humanities degrees. Being a STEMlord who can’t be nice or express yourself well in words will put you at a disadvantage in even the nerdiest of jobs.
To quote Adam Savage; The one skill to focus on, is how easy you are to work with. People will always take the less skilled but easy to interact with person, before the “full of them self” savant.
I’m using the word quote here in the broadest of sense. Cause I know I’m butchering the quote. Only remember the gist of it.
I also vaguely remember the quote you’re referencing and I think you got the gist of it.
I am working with a full team of low skilled, feely-touchy people.
The product is no where usable, the parent company is starting to increase the pressure to deliver, but hey, it’s a nice place to stay until the doors close.
I would take a team of moderately-skilled, emotionally intelligent people over a team of expert jerks who like the smell of their own farts.
I wouldn’t want to work with a low-skilled team of anyone.
Hope everyone has updated their resumes already
other techies I’ve worked with had humanities degrees
My sister, who’s been an occupational therapist, personal assistant and on other ‘soft’ jobs recently got hired as a helpdesk employee just for that reason. Apparently it’s easier to teach a humanist to reset M365 passwords and do simple troubleshooting than teach a techie on how to deal with humans (which is a major part of being an on-call support for anything).
She talks to the customers so the engineers don’t have to.
She has people skills. She is good at dealing with people.
Psych major, reporting in
Zuck, you?
History for me
Got no degree but study psychiatry, history and Philosophie in private. Autism am i right?
art major here
Let’s be real, a lot of people got in in the hopes of appeasing “the market”. What “the market” wanted, and still wants, is an excess of qualified people, so they can more easily pick, choose and abuse the workers. This has been the case for ages.
AI propaganda
The government pushed propaganda to oversaturate STEM to drive down the cost of skilled labor.
It worked as intended.
It didn’t backfire for employers. I’m sure newly-minted coding boot campers depressed wages for everyone.
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