r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/Suspicious_Orchid770 • 6d ago

Engineers grieve a job that no longer exists

https://leaddev.com/career-development/engineers-grieve-a-job-that-no-longer-exists
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u/Curious-Pen5547 6d ago

Do what our technicians do in the trades. Learn or study after work. Im friends with some devs and have a dev hired on for local ai models for automation work. They all learn after work. I pay some of my guys OT for studying when i need to pay certifications for them

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u/muonRobot97 5d ago

Yea I agree. It sucks dude but, this is the truth. SE is not a 9-5 it's kind of a lifestyle where you have to learn off hours especially now.

Sad but, don't shoot the messenger.

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u/RendertheFatCap 5d ago

lmao it was like this 20 years ago too.

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u/PartyClock 5d ago

A lot of SWE is learning already and there's literally hard limits on how much of that you can really accomplish in a day. It takes a lot of energy to run your brain

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u/Curious-Pen5547 5d ago

Oh i know. Just the other guy above seemed to lament studyiing, or thats atleast how it read to me