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Re:Ask HN: What other careers will you move into when the te... by fromtheocean on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @07:48PM (#10550545)
There won't be one left. All of the Twitter, Uber, AirBnB engineers sitting around with no job will take the low hanging fruit working for $50k per year at your local startup. Good luck finding a job when there aren't any.
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Re:Ask HN: What other careers will you move into when the te... by JabavuAdams on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @08:37PM (#10550746)
Why do you believe this? Were you around in 2000? Being a consultant was bad, but otherwise, there were still plenty of jobs for experienced folks. It's mostly the new grads and people working at unsustainable startups who got screwed,
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Re:Ask HN: What other careers will you move into when the te... by hindsightbias on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @08:00PM (#10550596)
There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept.

And all the housing on firesale... will snap that right up.

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