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‘No way to invest in a career here’: US academics flee overseas to avoid Trump crackdown
(www.theguardian.com)
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I don't wanna dox myself too much here, but I'm getting ready to return to classes after a career as a sysadmin.
More than just politics, it's the lack of regulation in the tech industry (which is also politics, yes, everything is). I don't think people realize how rapidly the tech industry is eating itself alive. There is a gigantic crash coming and it feels like it's already started, we're just trying our best to keep the tower stable for as long as possible because no one really wants this crash.
But there's no place for me anymore. No one does internal IT because it's too expensive, everything is cloud hosted and MSP provided. And those MSPs are all onboard the AI train to further cut costs and offload support tickets. What little humanity is left is just grease to keep the internet going 24/7, god forbid you can't access the skibidi toilet fandom site without 99.9% uptime (oops, wait, we say 99.999% uptime now in the cloud). The economy is crashing and no one can afford the ever increasing prices of games and services so they're going to cut hard wherever they can which is just going to result in even more layoffs.
I'm done, man. I'm cooked. I'm in my 30's and I'm burnt out as god damn hard as I've ever been and when this is all done, maybe if I'm lucky, I can be the sysadmin for a rural little bank in Lithuania making extremely modest wages but enough to feed myself and my cat and buy what little books and games and tea I need to get through existence. It's not much, but I know I won't find it here anymore.
So what classes will you be taking? I'm assuming you're returning to classes to pivot?
Cyber Security. It's close to the IT/Sysadmin world I know so I feel like I'll have a good start. I figure there's no such thing as job security anymore, but there'll always be a need for strong security.
From what I've read, that's a good choice!