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I left IT for a trade. For several reasons, (AI was one of them but not the most pressing one).
1) I like AI. I have 12 apps in the app store right now. They are being used, (231 installs last week). But I can see the writing on the wall. IT jobs are not going away completely...
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I got into IT because I was working in a sheet metal fabrication factory and I essentially pushed a button for a living and I wanted a challenge.
This will be developers in the near future. 👇🏻
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On Monday, I'm finishing up an install of a Kohler, (yes the faucet company), 800 Generator. It's literally the size of a room, (if you live in NYC, maybe the size of your apartment). It cost $350,000 and it outputs 480V/100A.
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I left IT for a trade. For several reasons, (AI was one of them but not the most pressing one).
1) I like AI. I have 12 apps in the app store right now. They are being used, (231 installs last week). But I can see the writing on the wall. IT jobs are not going away completely...
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Well, I guess that's it for now, Thanks for coming to my "Trade Talk". Feel free to hit me up if you're planning a move and want some advice. Other than that, if you're not interested in the journey to journeyman, please feel free to unfollow, there wont be many "Tech" posts unless it's something "techie" I did at work.
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In IT I never felt like I truly HELPED anyone. In a trade, I have the capacity to help. Last week I helped install a CT machine at a clinic in Denver. People's lives are going to be saved by that machine. Sure, if you're the lead developer at Waymo you can "save lives" by making sure your car doesn't run over someone, but in a trade you have the power to make a true impact.
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4) This one is more subjective than the others. I don't think people were meant to sit in a chair everyday of their lives. When I'm out working with my hands, I feel closer to my true nature. It's hard to explain but you work for a day and you have something concrete, (pun intended) to show for it. I can drive past a building and say, "I wired that building", or, "That grocery store lost power and was about to lose all of their perishable food but I went in and got the power back on."
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After high school I joined the Army. After that I worked in factories. Sitting in IT meetings where people were all so bubbly and fake made me physically ill. The whole corporate culture was just never my cup of tea. Which is why I preferred to work remotely. During meetings I could just sit in the back and do my crosswords.
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3) I never felt as though I "fit in" in the IT world. I was always a bit of an outsider. Most people in IT save money, go on vacations, have a healthy retirement portfolio, etc. I was a metal head, that has a checkered past. Bad credit, foul mouthed, alcoholic, impulsive, et. al.
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Anyone who has ever hired me or worked with me has heard me say that I NEVER make life decisions based on money. My last job I had I took a $20,000 pay cut because the job sounded interesting. Almost 12 years as an employed software dev and I never made more than $130.000.
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I'm taking a pay cut from about $60/hr to $20/hr. But the journeyman pay is about $45-50 and you can become a master electrician with 2 additional years of experience as a JW (journeyman). As a master you can start your own company and be back to 6 figures again.
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I lived my IT career as an early adopter, so I wanted to make my entry into the trades as an early adopter. In 4 years I'll be a journeyman. I see a lot of people leaving IT for the trades in about 4-5 years so I wanted to be ahead of the wave before the TRADE jobs become scarce.
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2) When IT collapses, people are going to run to the trades, or the service industry. I am a commercial/industrial electrical apprentice, it is going to be a LOOOOONG time before a robot can wire a warehouse, (and when they DO arrive one robot will cost more than 20 journeymen).
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(I read the book like 15 years ago so forgive me if my details are off). I see that happening maybe. AI takes on menial tasks and frees people from the mundane to do... who knows what.
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I left IT for a trade. For several reasons, (AI was one of them but not the most pressing one).
1) I like AI. I have 12 apps in the app store right now. They are being used, (231 installs last week). But I can see the writing on the wall. IT jobs are not going away completely...
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...but they are going to be fewer in number and harder to get. We're at the early stages of AI still. It's like Television in the 50s. One channel and if you don't like what's on you can go do something else. Soon, the Netflix of AI will be released and it will get worse.
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There's a book by @itsDanielSuarez called "Daemon". In the book if you can program a computer to do your job you get $50,000 per year for life. For the first 10 years people just party and drug it up but then they start getting bored and they go get advanced degrees and such...
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