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[–] TheBuddha 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Basically, tech field is flooded, management doesn't understand us or our value.

That's very similar to what I've read from Slashdot - thanks for the briliant write-up!

It's why I'd absolutely not tell kids to get into tech today. Take the T right out of STEM - with one exception. If they can handle the grind, web development still seems viable, if you're willing to learn a new framework every six months. If you want to do ST then, I'd absolutely recommend AI/ML/NN/GANs, etc... However, that's a very rapidly moving target and you're going to want a PhD. But, a PhD commands huge money in that sector! HUGE! Tencent, out of China, is paying hundreds of thousands or dollars - like up to a half mil, per year. Those are USD rates but paid in China.

Yeah... If I weren't retired, I'd be all over that. My doctorate is in Applied Mathematics, but I can probably come up to speed in 2 to 4 years.

If you've got the brains - maybe see if you can get in somewhere on the ground floor? You seem to be mostly a sys admin, but DevOps is big right now. That might get you in at an entry position doing ML somewhere. I'm posting a ton of resources in the AI sub, if you're interested. I see resources daily and many of them are pretty good. I've actually started to get a bit of a grasp on the subject.

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[–] mineMineMINE [S] ago 

I've been wanting to be in devops forever. Seriously, I used to program in about 5 languages fluently (Haskell, Scala, C/C++, Java, X86-64 Assembler), but now it's just down to Haskell which is too unknown to really get me anywhere. The SysAdmin role was thrown on me (when getting into the field I turned down 3 job offers because they said they needed sys admins and because I took a course on it in college I got the return call) when I was told I'd be moving into business analytics. Admittedly, I do use those skills (and my team would be humped if I didn't understand languages like I do), but it's primarily about usage reports or can I build some stupid sql script.

Unfortunately, I'm not that smart to continue in the IT field. I don't follow the trends, and I went into programming as a method of developing new and interesting things (oh, that was a mistake, should have stuck with chemistry and went into material science). AI is a simple enough concept, but I'd have to sink a good year into developing one to really understand it (I don't learn top down very well). And, going for a higher degree would be a suicide trip (I'm shit at school, no idea why, do wonders at work but somehow the work ethic doesn't translate over to school. Maybe because I'm trying to learn instead of pass ???)

But, if it wasn't me. You're advice would be a perfect fit for most people. ML is going to be a developing (and thereby a simplifying) field that will be heading the tech trends for at least a decade.

Think at this point I need to find something new I can throw myself into for a decade. Already covered a good bit of philosophy and politics, economics would be interesting.

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[–] TheBuddha 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Hit up HN and on the first of the month they have a who's hiring thread. There's almost always someone looking for Haskell skills and paying well because few people are doing it any more. My understanding is that it's actually pretty easy to get a job right now. It's just that they all kind of suck and you probably won't be better appreciated - unless you get in with a good company or are a rock star developer or whatnot.

They all seem to think of IT as a cost center, without actually realizing that they'd be sunk without it. From an outsider looking in, it's batshit crazy. I've been retired for a bit more than a decade and I've just watched the stories get worse and worse. I can't opine, because I'm not there, but it's to the point where some of the smartest geeks I know have gone off to be shit like plumbers or electricians.