ringo99
Specialist
- Apr 18, 2023
- 355
I'm struggling to stay in my IT job. It requires constant updation, something I'm finding harder and harder to do as I grow older. With AI things have become even more uncertain. The pay isn't terrible but it's been stagnant since covid and losing ground to inflation.
You must have seen articles about many hundreds being fired from top companies like IBM, Microsoft and so on, but what you don't hear about are the tens of thousands more who're forced to resign voluntarily or get shunted into virtually dead end roles with no real prospect of career growth. This is to ensure that these companies can still maintain the facade that they're doing everything they can to preserve employees by "upskilling". Upskilling doesn't guarantee that you'll be in that role anytime soon either. By the way this is mostly done at the employees' expense not the companies'. Even if they fund your training you're still forced to sign a contract that restricts your ability to search for jobs elsewhere. White collar slavery at its finest.
Yet somehow they still find it in their budget to give execs millions of dollars in bonuses for what's essentially shuffling paper.....
Trade schools in my country don't lead to reasonably well paying jobs as in the west so I'm more or less stuck here. If I'm ever fired, my decision to ctb will be cemented. It's the last barrier standing in my way now that I already have SN. Just sticking around to save up enough money so that my mom can have a somewhat better financial future. I can't fight the system I'm in.
You must have seen articles about many hundreds being fired from top companies like IBM, Microsoft and so on, but what you don't hear about are the tens of thousands more who're forced to resign voluntarily or get shunted into virtually dead end roles with no real prospect of career growth. This is to ensure that these companies can still maintain the facade that they're doing everything they can to preserve employees by "upskilling". Upskilling doesn't guarantee that you'll be in that role anytime soon either. By the way this is mostly done at the employees' expense not the companies'. Even if they fund your training you're still forced to sign a contract that restricts your ability to search for jobs elsewhere. White collar slavery at its finest.
Yet somehow they still find it in their budget to give execs millions of dollars in bonuses for what's essentially shuffling paper.....
Trade schools in my country don't lead to reasonably well paying jobs as in the west so I'm more or less stuck here. If I'm ever fired, my decision to ctb will be cemented. It's the last barrier standing in my way now that I already have SN. Just sticking around to save up enough money so that my mom can have a somewhat better financial future. I can't fight the system I'm in.
