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Originally Posted by unaluna
Have you read about project 2038? Mountaindewed turned me on to it. Its going to be like another Y2K, where they are going to need like literally armies of computer programmers to make small but important changes to countless computer programs. The deadline is barely 10 years away.
You guys are all fairly computer literate. You may be able to find a tech cert for this work. I worked on some y2k date processing updates but mostly i worked on systems that were supposed to have been replaced by new systems by that date but which were late and needed more complex modifications, because by then i had 25 years experience and could read the minds of dead people! J/k! But thats what fixing old programs is like!
I like that you are thinking outside the box. I can see where "Better Health" and such online psych help things will have expanded needs in the future. I would love to see the day when online screens are optimized - i still remember one horrible set in the late 1970's that i refused to enter test data on because if you missed the last tick, you had to re-tick thru the entire screen, no reverse! Not for me!
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These are good suggestions.
My only concern about tech and IT jobs is that market is very saturated right now. My brother has been computer engineer his whole life. Last year their company got sold and department was closed. After 6 months of pretty decent severance pay he had to get a new job. He did. And not right away. Ton of applicants everywhere
But he’s under huge stress now because he’s the oldest person in the company, everyone is much much younger. There are always tons of candidates for each vacancy.
The pay is very good but isn’t as extravagant as it used to be. Job is very demanding and much faster pace than what he used etc And he’s always stressed. And he’s very good and experienced.
I am concerned how someone who never worked and got online fast pace degree would be able to get and hold these top of jobs. I’d say being computer savvy isn’t anything unusual anymore. Everyone in their 30s and 40s at my work are very computer savvy. It’s just how they are even without special degrees. That’s just how it is.
But I agree about tech cert. it’s a better route than degree in psychology, unless one wants to be a psychologist. But even then PhD is preferable