I quit tech today, warning to junior and mid-level devs

I don’t think the job is done, but I do suspect it’s going to turn into something similar to like medicine, finance and law. Much more competitive, bigger separation between like top salaries and median salaries. Harder requirements. The days of going to code school and getting a $150k salary are done.

Interestingly we’ll probably never be as credentialed as those industries, but it will probably be like the environment described in dramas. Relatively “easy” to get a job if you’re smart, but oppressive up or out riff days every six months.

Going forward, make sure you have strength in a secondary field rather than just concentrating on development. Know business or science or engineering so you can do in-field application development. Perhaps with a minor in the subject if possible. These kinds of people will be (much) less common than Python weenies.

Or be traditional. Gate-kept fields like medicine, or higher skilled fields like law or biotech/pharma are still there and people still need new meds. Perhaps law is oversubscribed, don’t have personal experience there.