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  • But really read what the guys saying. 2 and 3 are basically the same thing.

    Oh yeah no job? Just go become a start-up founding engineer. Problem, bud?

    It’s delusional idiocy. All of it.

    Edit to extrapolate on my underlying, unspoken point

    I think there’s an elephant in the room that’s very difficult for people to accept: the era of semi-qualified people getting jobs straight out of school went bye-bye and it’s never coming back.

    If you’re not the top five or 10 being scouted actively in your graduating class, you’re basically doomed. Further to that, if you haven’t been scouted, you’re not the kind of person who has the skill to do any of the other suggestions the man puts forward.

    I don’t want to speak in such dark terms but I’ve lived this life. It’s game over for people who aren’t eating, breathing, and shitting tech every minute of their life.


  • It’s deranged advice.

    About 1% of cs grads are able to innovate something and start a company. And 97% of them will fail in a year.

    I lived through the 1st big tech “startup” thing, I was involved in many myself, it’s no little game you play

    It’s how you end up $140,000 in debt, and unable to make your lease payments because your major customer just fucked you over, because their main customer just went into bankruptcy, because Paramount put a moratorium on Star Trek franchise licensing to prevent brand dilution.

    You don’t fuck around and just decide you’re going to start a tech business and everything is gold… Like at least get a couple years working in a few failed startups to see exactly what the pitfalls are

    Can’t get work after graduation? Perhaps you squandered your time and came out of school with nothing to show and you’re not able to stand above your contemporaries. Sucks and maybe you should have tried harder.

    Tech is a vicious game. Nobody kid themselves please I’m begging you

    Edit. If you’re not walking out with your degeee in one hand and a fully fledged, innovative, killer product in the other, you’re already finished. Even then you can have investors lined up like salivating dogs, and still fail in a spectacular explosion





  • I guess I shouldn’t gripe because the person did share but, I really don’t like it when I get a mysterious YouTube link to a clickbait title and have no idea what I’m going to get.

    So I took the pain for the team, open that baby up in a private tab and skimmed through it.

    Essentially it’s a series of anecdotes from shopkeepers stating that customers no longer wish to purchase American products, they’ve stopped selling most American alcohols, the “Buy Canadian” movement is going to directly cost 10⁶ US workers their jobs as a result, and thats just scratching the surface.

    It’s a little bit of editorializing, a little bit of reporting, mostly interspersed with little anecdotes like a shopkeeper saying “oh we used to sell $60,000 of California wine a week and now thats all gone, we sell Canadian and French brands now”

    Lather, rinse, repeat for 10 minutes.