Re:Ask HN: What's the fastest way to become employable in tech
by mirker on Saturday October 16, 2021 @03:45PM
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Being a prodigy is not necessary to set up a webpage (or whatever). I’d argue most jobs are processing low-grade data with legacy frameworks, which is a test of patience and not prodigy IQ.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the fastest way to become employable in tech
by rsj_hn on Saturday October 16, 2021 @04:03PM
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> Being a prodigy is not necessary to set up a webpage
True, but you are not going to get a tech job because you can set up a webpage. Maybe in 1999 San Francisco, but the world has moved on.
There are actually not that many jobs open to people who just know how to deal with a web framework.
Re:Ask HN: What's the fastest way to become employable in tech
by mirker on Sunday October 17, 2021 @12:22AM
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I just looked for Drupal and Wordpress jobs and they exist ($60k/year seems normal). Since the whole point of these frameworks is to abstract out actually writing the bulk of server code, I’d imagine a large part of the job is dealing with legacy quirks, uploading photos, and keeping servers up.
There’s clearly a business need but as far as I know, there isn’t a mathematical-type of hardness to managing these types of websites. And on Wallstreet you have trading being performed with VBA Excel scripts…