1999 and 2000: watching older friends graduate into jobs that paid a then astonishing $80-100k, on the strength of some summer internships and part-time gigs<p>2001: summer internship at Microsoft testing Office for Mac, looking forward to bright future after graduation, hearing from recent grads that it wasn’t quite as rosy as before…<p>2002: getting a government contracting job writing Java unit tests and user manuals in a musty basement in a DC suburb, and crying a bit… with relief. Watching classmates with better grades than mine nervously eyeing private student loan repayment schedules while anxiously waiting to hear back from defense contractors they reluctantly applied to.
AI will generate new jobs. At the same time, many jobs would gradually seize to exist.<p>We are experiencing a revolution for sure. An industrial revolution kind of. Some jobs chopped off, some added
To be clear, the grads in this article are not computer science college graduates.<p>The article states that Launch school is one of the “anti bootcamp coding schools,”. Ok school it is, but it's a school that's more of a vocational type training than a college degree seeking program. I'm not sure you can compare college graduates with Launch School graduates directly.