• ReCursing@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    I graduated in 2002, just as the dot com bubble burst. Similar scary headlines abounded then. I’m not employed in it, but I don’t recall the tech sector disappearing and us all going to live in caves. Maybe I missed it?

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      1 month ago

      Same, 2001 comp sci grad, and these are the same things I heard back then, still in tech and honestly theres been many boom and bust cycles I’ve lived through in this industry.

      Tech and software aren’t going anywhere, anytime soon but there will be a salary correction just like back then.

    • radix@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I graduated in 2001 in a tech-adjacent field, and my first job was as a security guard making barely over minimum wage. Things get bad. Things get better.