Comment by BrandoElFollito
5 hours ago
I think it is going to be difficult for you to get advice outside of the herbal "find a job you like, live a full life"
I am working for 30+ years, a combination of academia, then tech until today, where I have a very senior position in a company you know.
The world changed drasically over these 30 years and my path to an arguably successful career is absolutely not what I am suggesting to my children.
My generation built the Internet from a state of nothingness. This meant that whatever clever you were doing was new and recounting, and was bringing money. You had z limited set of technologies so you could be a master in many of them, and good in the rest.
Today this is not possible, you need to specialize, and often early.
I know that this not help, what I am probably trying to say it's that there are immutable truths (having fun, having friends and/or family, having hobbies, ...), then there is luck and maybe a statistical relevance in some jobs more than others.
I’m not sure if this is good advice.
The problem is that tech fashions and job market change rapidly every few years. And it takes a long time to specialize in an area. If you’re lucky and happen to be in the right place at the right time, sure, specialization works for you. Otherwise, there can be no job for you as a specialist. If you start early, who knows what the job market will look like a few years from now, let alone a couple of decades.
It’s a bad environment. It might be time for a universal income.