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The great displacement is already well underway?

(shawnfromportland.substack.com)
512 points JSLegendDev | 3 comments | 12 May 25 14:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.607s | source
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ecshafer ◴[13 May 25 00:27 UTC] No.43968700[source]▶
I live in syracuse, I found a job this year after being laid off in 2 months. It was a stressful time. Instead or 5-6 hours a week hed be better off studying C,C++ and Java and applying to places locally. Syracuse does not have a ton of web work, but there is a big defense industry here (Saab, SRC, Lockheed, AFRL) so there are things. Cornell, SU, UofR, I imagine are hiring fewer software engineers now though with the potus changes.
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GuinansEyebrows ◴[13 May 25 18:26 UTC] No.43976082[source]▶
> but there is a big defense industry here (Saab, SRC, Lockheed, AFRL)

i hope things don't get so bad that my options are destitution or the defense industry, but i'm used to eating ramen.

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1. ourguile ◴[13 May 25 18:58 UTC] No.43976381[source]▶
There are also quite a number of medical device and pharmaceutical companies on the east coast (based in upstate NY here), along with defense industry contractors. So, there are some more options.
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2. GuinansEyebrows ◴[13 May 25 20:42 UTC] No.43977482[source]▶
medical devices i am slightly more sympathetic to, as a user of a DMD. pharmaceutical companies, only slightly higher than "defense" companies. they exist in practice so that few may benefit from the misery of many.
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3. ahartmetz ◴[14 May 25 03:30 UTC] No.43980464[source]▶
IME, medical device work is nice: they need high quality and they are willing and able to pay for it.