I don't understand the software profession

Jobs ask for 3-5 years of ANDROID or skill X experience. Lets say you rack up 10 years in that. Then it goes out of style and they use some new exotic language for Android. Now your skills can't even get you a job bagging groceries. So what do you do? You work on some app in the new skill, and it still won't be good for employers because you don't have enough experience in it.

A few years ago everyone wanted Angular. Now it is definitely fizzling out.

If I knew this 15-20 years ago I would NEVER have gone into this shit. It is a losing game, unless you can create a company on your own.

It is really worse than that these days. It's a churning mill of new languages, frameworks, databases, libraries, cloud services that changes every 3 months with a constant influx of third world shitty coders who have zero idea what they are doing. Github repositories for everything under the sun, none of them maintained. Endless new pieces of hardware.

And 5 companies that control everything.

It is a losing game, unless you can create a company on your own.

Why do you think they have all those tech startups? Even for the top talent they get fucked over.

This company CLAIMS to hire the top 3% of talent. Compensation ?

Data Engineer - Python or Scala $48k - 102k | Equity
Toptal

At least they are realistic.

50K on a some Indonesian Island will let you live like a fucking king.

If you are supposedly the top 3% of talent why not put apps in the appstore and get rich from them? Who the fuck needs toptal?

AND YET...ALL, let me repeat that, ALL Fortune 500 corporations in America (and the equivalent in ALL European countries) still, STILL run MAINFRAMES. If you can code bespoke applications to run on mainframe, and if you know mainframe utilities, then you LITERALLY have a job for life.

Oh, you might not be making hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then again, how many people at Google et al make that? AND, you won't have to live in San FAGcisco or JEW York.

You can have a much, much better standard of living and quality of life, a job for life, and work for a proper company, from Harley Davidson to Boeing, to GM to Heinz, to Exxon to EVERY FUCKING COMPANY!

"Mainframe is dead! Client server will replace it!"
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"Andoid is the latest thing. Suckers still working on mainframe!"
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Great thread

There are plenty of software contracting jobs in SF paying 35-65/hr, maybe benefits maybe not. 35X2000 is about 70K/yr, maybe 80 with some OT.

I'm thinking if you start working on some open source project, contribute to it, fix bugs, etc that could be a way to get hired. I don't know. That may get you into FB or google, but you may have to do a year of free work.

your pigenholed to that project, after a year or two it is replaced by the next new thing and you are on maintenance with your skill set going to shit until you quickly find your skill set is obsolete and you want to switch to a different profession.

It is really worse than that these days. It's a churning mill of new languages, frameworks, databases, libraries, cloud services that changes every 3 months with a constant influx of third world shitty coders who have zero idea what they are doing. Github repositories for everything under the sun, none of them maintained. Endless new pieces of hardware.

And 5 companies that control everything.

If it is a true thread it is very depressing.

That is another myth. Not saying you can't make money in the appstore, but I read that is similar to the dating market, where 90% of women want 10% of men. I think the statistics are even harsher. Most apps are lucky to make pennies. If you went in back in 2008 you would have had a much better chance. It is more saturated than the Pacific Ocean now.

If it is a true thread it is very depressing.