Re:The creeping IT apocalypse
by someone454 on Thursday January 17, 2019 @12:14PM
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I gave myself the title “IT Janitor” because for years all I did was clean up other people’s $4!7. I automated everything I touched, and told people it was so I would have more time to surf the Internet. Now I’m over 50, in the Innovation group, and dreading ever having to find a new job. But I’m having fun: blockchain, robotics, mobile app dev, and now NLP.
The mid-range jobs have always been vanishing. Many times, I'm the guy automating them out of existence. It's always replaced by something else.
It depends on the circumstances, of course, but there is often more work after the automation than before. It's just different work. It requires reskilling.
The article mentions some new product AWS is coming out with. No matter how "simple" it makes things, someone is going to end up being an expert at using it, and will probably be paid well to do so.
Really, the toughest and most crucial part of this career has been keeping up. The work stays steady, though.