Yes, But with the surging supply you have to come in at least top 20% of the developers to earn Good.
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#12Yes, But with the surging supply you have to come in at least top 20% of the developers to earn Good.
Top 5% imo. There's a large bottom 50-60% these days who are overseas talent and boot camp graduates who are competing.
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#13IT is very broad, and making money is always hard.
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#15If you want to make money, IT is still one of the best fields out there for people without much of a connection. It is also one of the fields that does have very complex systems. OS kernels, distributed database engines, AAA game engines, you name it.
It is just in USA and some other few nations. In most of the rest of the world a sw dev is paid just a bit more than a standard office job
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#16If you want to make money, IT is still one of the best fields out there for people without much of a connection. It is also one of the fields that does have very complex systems. OS kernels, distributed database engines, AAA game engines, you name it.
It is just in USA and some other few nations. In most of the rest of the world a sw dev is paid just a bit more than a standard office job
And sometimes that's enough for a good and fulfilling life.
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#17If you love it, do it. It is not that easy to find a job as before, but if you are good and pro-active, and with passion, money will come... no matter what you actually do.
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#18If you're genuinely fascinated by systems, yes is the answer. The point to understand is that the surface-level coding is what's getting cheaper, the systems work isn't.
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#19Of course, I mean yeah the coding agents are good but they are far from being perfect. Every time I use them I endup spending more time debugging the code and getting everything right and working according to my expectations. I doubt they will ever fully replace the good developers completely.
I think OP is from USA and there IT = sysadmin, while programming is Software Development / Engineering (to my crude understanding from browsing the interwebs). So what OP is asking if it's worth getting into IT to work on servers and such
I am from usa but i was using IT as general handle for the sector informarion technolgy inclusive of software engineering, administrationn, networking and hardware.