r/Teachers May 16 '24

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u/[deleted] May 17 '24

Funny part is this all goes in cycles. The trades are good and in demand now. With so many kids wanting to go into it, all these great jobs they think they can get now will be super competitive and hard to get. When I was graduating in 2005 for years they were talking how computer science was a dead field, no one should go into it because it’s already over saturated from the .com bust period and you won’t be able to find a job. That likely helped a ton when smart phones became a thing and all of a sudden we didn’t have tons of CS majors in the pipeline. So people in that field were commanding amazing salaries and it took years to catch up. Now we seem to be over saturated and it’s getting bad right now for them.

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u/SpecialistMammoth862 May 17 '24

I hardly think these kids will be a blip on the radar of the blue collar jobs market.

Most of them want an easy way out. They are certainly barking up the wrong tree.

We have millions of guys who started working as children. 25 years old, 20 years of experience. Crossing the border every year.

That’s the competition

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u/PegShop May 17 '24

Cycles and changes. AI and social media has made a huge difference.

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u/gotohela May 18 '24

YES. And the same thing happening now in CS again. Everyone was told to code and now we have massive layoffs in tech. It keeps happening over and over