I wanted to be a programmer a few years ago but I just couldn’t put my head around it. Considering AI is becoming a thing I made the right call there.
I wanted to be a programmer a few years ago but I just couldn’t put my head around it. Considering AI is becoming a thing I made the right call there.
Multiple times in my career the thing I had trained for basically stopped being a thing, or became such an easy thing it wasn’t going to be much of a job.
Being at the wrong point, either too early or too late, in various tech waves almost felt like my super power.
Wasn’t until I turned thirty that I picked the right tech at the right time, and for 20 years have had a great career in an industry that is just as valuable today as when I started.
Programming turned out to be a major component in what I do, and while I’ve seen AI spit out some reasonable code in the more popular languages, I can’t see it replacing what I’m doing before I’m too old to care.
I was studying for a radio production degree exactly at the point where radio station budgets were rapidly shrinking, while podcasting was growing. But obviously the degree course didn’t really have any podcasting in the syllabus because it was relatively new. Home streaming wasn’t really a thing at that point either, so we go no tuition on how to set up our own output.
Radio is massively different now than it was then. So yeah, I hear ya.