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by jeingham 213 days ago
I'm an OFG, born in 1952 (...an okay boomer...) hit the job market in 1971, bad but there were always openings for machinists. Tough craft with a long learning curve but they paid reasonably well in my view, at the time at least. Long story short, TL;DR, evolving myself into a CAD CAM CNC stabilized my career long term. I know there are nuances and differences here with you programmers and the AI revolution but I think you all will be best served embracing it fully or find another path.BTW, the only reason I'm reading HN
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... is because I parlayed my CAD CAM and CNC knowledge into my follow on career as an web applications manager, server admin (of sorts), DBA and general web wonk midwitz.

I'll add that I am still, in my state of semi blissful retirement, clattering away on my several PCs and really having fun with AI, Cursor, HN and other geeky (can we say that anymore?) stuffs.

I guess I'll end by advising that to fight evolution is a bad bet.