I don't know how many of you relate, but a personal level this last few years has left me quite shaken.
In 2021 I remember thinking how tech really proved its worth by so quickly assisting our economies through the pandemic with e-commerce, video conferencing and work from home.
Sure, things felt a bit crazy, but I remember thinking how lucky I was to land in tech as a career and that it was hard to see a future any time soon where the world wouldn't value tech workers highly.
Skip to today and I'm honestly wondering how long I have.
We've had a massive influx of new tech talent over the last few years and now we see this dramatic turnaround in hiring which will likely make it significantly harder to get a good tech job in the near future.
And in addition to this we have tools like GPT potentially disrupting our careers on a timescale best viewed on the scale of months.
It doesn't help that I'm going through a lot in my personal life at the moment too, but I've never felt so vulnerable about what the future holds.
I guess I should just be grateful that we had a good run while it lasted, but it's hard to think like that when people depend on you to have things figured out.
Anyway, I hope everyone involved in these layoffs lands on their feet.
In 2021 I remember thinking how tech really proved its worth by so quickly assisting our economies through the pandemic with e-commerce, video conferencing and work from home.
Sure, things felt a bit crazy, but I remember thinking how lucky I was to land in tech as a career and that it was hard to see a future any time soon where the world wouldn't value tech workers highly.
Skip to today and I'm honestly wondering how long I have.
We've had a massive influx of new tech talent over the last few years and now we see this dramatic turnaround in hiring which will likely make it significantly harder to get a good tech job in the near future.
And in addition to this we have tools like GPT potentially disrupting our careers on a timescale best viewed on the scale of months.
It doesn't help that I'm going through a lot in my personal life at the moment too, but I've never felt so vulnerable about what the future holds.
I guess I should just be grateful that we had a good run while it lasted, but it's hard to think like that when people depend on you to have things figured out.
Anyway, I hope everyone involved in these layoffs lands on their feet.