A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe

Re:A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe by Spoom on Saturday December 07, 2013 @11:29PM (#6868954)

As a PHP developer with just an associates degree, I can tell you that my first coding job was in fact paying $13 / hr, but roughly two years later I had enough skills to freelance at twice the rate. It has only gone up since.

I think the GP was saying that the low end welding jobs have been automated out of existence; I don't think that's the case for low-end coding jobs.

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Re:A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe by krakensden on Sunday December 08, 2013 @04:41PM (#6871545)

> the low end welding jobs have been automated out of existence; I don't think that's the case for low-end coding jobs

I'm not so sure- it seems like times are pretty hard in the website business, which always seemed like the primary swimming pool for low end/beginning devs. Twitter + Tumblr can do a lot.

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