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		Jolter on Oct 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container sta... You mean all those underemployed software engineers and all the trained programmers forced to wait tables because they couldn’t get a programming job? That is not how I remember the world in 2019.

pixl97 on Oct 24, 2021 [–]

You took that the wrong way. Software engineers moved up. I've gotten 2 promotions since the pandemic started. I'm talking about people shifting industries in to ones that have been short staffed, like programming, and leaving the crap jobs behind.

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