My work says I'm a, "security architect II". I believe he physical world manifestation of that would be... the guy that plans where the security guards should stand? Actually, I'm "II" so I'm probably more like the guy who gets escalated to when the guys that do do that need help ๐คท
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Never say never. AI is generating code from your code.
Yeah, that'll get me the job but it'll still have the same problem: Only getting paid to have knowledge of just one thing.
Companies don't hire generalists that can get a lot of different work done. They hire specialists that are like cogs in a machine. That way they're much easier to replace and a lot cheaper too.
a foundational understanding of how things work
Yeah! Kids these days are learning (in school) all about containers, service discovery, AWS, production deployment strategies, password vaulting solutions, cryptographic key/password management, and most importantly: politically defensive email practices.
Oh wait: No they aren't, LOL.
I just interviewed dozens of fresh (CS) college grads a few months ago and only one of them even knew what SSH was let alone anything remotely resembling basic command line stuff, Linux skills, or any of the above mentioned things.
They sure could write a mean linked list though! ๐
It takes a while to get through the entire standard library but PyMOTW makes it fun and keeps things interesting ๐
(Yes, I've read every single one and if I can do it you can too)
Hey now... if you reinvent the wheel you can make it your own.
...in a way that no one else will appreciate or understand, necessitating that the next person that comes along will also have to reinvent the wheel...
A better analogy would be if there were 10,000 ways to cut out a tumor but the patient only wanted the doctor to use one specific method because that's what they have heard about. It'll either be the method, "everyone's using these days" or it'll be a method that was popular in the 1990s but the tools available to perform that kind of surgery are hard to find these days because they were obsolete 20 years ago.
NOW WE'RE TALKING!
You're getting downvoted but you're on to something...
Let's take your idea and apply it both ways! Are employers willing to give us a 50% increase in pay for getting projects done in half the time? ๐
Hahaha... No. Hell no.
Yeah! Piss all over their projects to asert dominance!
Wait: That's what project managers do. Never mind.
You're expected to know how to program microcontrollers to mainframes to fucking VCRs and knowing every programming language ever created since electronic computers exist as well as networking and cloud technology and databases, etc. AND you have to be certified in all these things to prove you know them on top of your degree.
So there's a problem even worse than this: When you have all those skills and more (I do ๐) employers expect to pay you the salary of someone who knows just one of those things.
Like, I was a professional hacker, a systems administrator (both Unix/Linux and Windows), I know networking, have administered/maintained databases, I'm also an award-winning web developer (I know the usual web stuff plus Python, Rust, and a few other things), an embedded developer (C, C++, and Rust), and I can even engineer, design, and program an entire product from scratch that didn't exist before (see: https://youtu.be/iv6Rh8UNWlI?si=dG15yQlQpfNGCDal ). That includes designing/engineering the circuit board.
Do I get paid for knowing all these things? No. If I apply for any job you know what employers say when they reject me?
Overqualified
You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't!
No no... you've got it all wrong. It's $75,000 total value for the drugs plus the porn.
So it's like $10,000 worth of drugs and $65,000 worth of porn. After all, you can cream a lot of porn into a USB drive these days.
For anyone doubting that the porn is worth that much, well... you'll just have to watch it and decide for yourself.
I work for a huge financial institution. Every now and again some manager gets it in their head that it might be a motivating factor to say something like, "this is costing/going to save the company millions of dollars!"
In my head I'm like, "Yeah, so what you're saying is that this fix/improvement is so trivial as to barely be worth anyone's time." If your company makes billions of dollars in pure profit every fucking quarter a few million dollars here and there over the course of a year is the equivalent of a middle class individual losing a quarter down a storm drain once... In their lifetime.