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Screen size & your importance (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by EfreetSK@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] Captain_Faraday@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My spouse and I work for a contractor that is having trouble hiring experienced people like us, so they have been hiring fresh grads outta school. There is a limited pool of experience here, so when management throws a fit one of us is overloaded or gets sick and can’t meet the budget or deadline, it ends with nothing because they can’t afford to lose us. We work on the power grid and it’s a relatively small pool of engineers doing the work we do. Also, I’m rocking two work laptops with a home setup of 4 monitors and an office setup of 3, but still feel pretty important!

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

You should start poaching the gaming industry, it's shedding developers like mad. Most of them are familiar with several stacks so pickup up new stuff is nbd.

[-] Captain_Faraday@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Haha, those would be my kind of co-workers, but the kind of work we do requires a background and degree in electrical engineering and power systems. Although, I have been moving away from this in my career in the conventional sense. I want to do dev stuff and networking stuff, that’s where the fun is! They recently gave me an opportunity to help program and configure all the networking and automation equipment for a substation, been learning a lot and feeling like my tinkering with homelab stuff is finally paying off in some way lol.