> With the rise of gig work, constant firings and layoffs,
I’m honestly fascinated that people think gig work, firing, layoffs and 30-year mortgages are recent phenomena.
If you had to pick a point in the last century to enter the job market, now is certainly not the best time. However it is far, far from the worst time.
I think it speaks to just how distorted the tech job market was in recent years. For a couple years it felt like everyone was hiring, nobody got laid off, and you could always get a job as long as you had a pulse and could name a programming language. That wasn’t normal but many people’s expectations very quickly reset to that.
I’m honestly fascinated that people think gig work, firing, layoffs and 30-year mortgages are recent phenomena.
If you had to pick a point in the last century to enter the job market, now is certainly not the best time. However it is far, far from the worst time.
I think it speaks to just how distorted the tech job market was in recent years. For a couple years it felt like everyone was hiring, nobody got laid off, and you could always get a job as long as you had a pulse and could name a programming language. That wasn’t normal but many people’s expectations very quickly reset to that.