Tech Workers, Just Like Content-Creators, Are Being Told, "You're a Dime a Dozen"

 

As digital dried up traditional opportunities and reduced compensation for myriad categories of content-providers at the beginning of the 21st century some of us lamented: We should have majored in IT. The worst part was being told, "You're a dime a dozen."  

Well, as The Wall Street Journal details, myriad categories of tech workers currently are in the same pickle content-creators had been in - and still are. For example, Indeed documents that since February 2020, job listings for tech workers are down 30%. So far this year tech companies have laid off 135,000. All this is analyzed as not a periodic downturn but a massive reset.

Part of that reset is shifting the focus to the large langauge models that power products. Tech workers with those skills, unlike those from the pre- Gen AI era, are in demand. They can earn per year a million bucks. 

In contrast, even senior associates at a prestigous law firm such as Skadden, Paul Weiss or Latham might only be pulling down half that annually. That's after three years of law school, six-figure student loan debt and about five or six years of long long hours and essentially no-right-to-disconnect. 

Content-creation and tech, though, have lots of company in sectors experiencing this kind of reversal of fortune. Other industries also mutating include HR, project management, film production, public relations, graphic arts, finance, management consulting and more. Those pushed out may never get back in.

In doing intuitive coaching (my career path replacing content-creation) the most intense pain clients tell me about is the shock: They were once at the top of their profession. Then the profession went poof. Analogy: Being the best blacksmith in town as the Model-T caught on.

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