The STEM Degree SCAM: Why I Quit Coding.

Ex-Google TechLead exposes the STEM degree scam, the end of the coding era.

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[samerken]

I can’t wait for the world with no doctors, engineers, plumbers and genuine work people. The beautiful world filled with only media influencers, crypto investors and drop shippers.

[bruhirl]

Thank you Techlead for gatekeeping IT from newcomers and protecting our jobs.

[lfarrocodev]

TechLead doing us a favor by keeping more people out of coding (therefore, less competition)

[babyrulez]

Tech lead: why you should quit coding

Also tech lead: why you should buy my coding course

[james-cfmw]

this guy is becoming the andrew tate of code trying to break you out of the code matrix by making you a code influencer

[thelasttellurian]

The sad truth is that we built enough. It's like if you stand in the middle of New York and want to build a city. You can't - we already have a city. If you came 100 years before, you may had an opportunity. But now, it's too late. And unlike a city, which can only house 1 to 1 ratio of people and infrastructure, 1 website and 1 app and host the entire world. We already built the low hanging fruit, what is left now are just niche which only few can live off.

[brandonsilva]

>becomes successful because of coding
>tells you not to code

[TomNook.]

He is right. AI, eastern Europe, south and east Asia have hordes of very talented, hard working and low paid graduates than STEM in the West.

[Yegoros]

You forget to say that becoming an actor or media person requires sometimes more luck and hard work than getting STEM degree. Take a look at those people living in LA near Holywood dreaming about profession of actor and not getting it in a lifetime. From the other hand you have quite straight way of obtaining STEM degree where you know that everything is in your hands. Of course you won't get all those money like in media but you will be surely above middle class.

[GreenspudTrades]

I'm a software engineer. The UPS guy who drops off my packages now makes more money than me.

[deepblackoutlaw]

Jumping into YouTube, selling coding courses? Way cooler than dealing with straight-up coding these days.

[bithon]

Being STEM oriented was a natural extension of my education journey and therefore I could not see myself getting any other degree. It wasn’t even a struggle for me to get my degree because I was always curious about math, physics and CS. So yeah, if you are naturally inclined towards sciences you should definitely pursue a STEM degree.

[alberteinstein]

If TechLead quit coding, what does he do for a living, make YouTube videos about coding instead? Seems like coding still has value for him then.

[finally-a-girl-is-noone]

if everyone was a celebrity, no one would be a celebrity.

[dwaynezilla]

The moral of this story is to find a way to make money doing what you like and what you're good at, because in every sector the best people are the ones who like it and are good at it. Dredging through a STEM degree is just setting you up for more dredging in your career.

[di]

I get the point that you are saying coding is a difficult field to get into but Imagine a society where everyone wants to be an actor or an entertainer. I would not want to live in a society like that 😂

[thedownwardmachine]

I went to Berkeley and studied EECS (computer engineering, basically). It didn’t teach me how to code in the industry, instead it taught me how computers work, the fundamentals of science and engineering, and most importantly how to learn.

You don’t NEED a STEM degree to code, but for most people, you limit your growth potential if you don’t give yourself a proper foundation.

[alcoyot]

Being a successful media star or influence is not in your control. It’s based on factors completely outside you control and requires a lot of luck, it’s a lot less work to just play the lottery, if your whole plan is to just roll some dice and see if you can get really lucky. Also as a plumber you can charge people 300/hr, and that’s only going to get worse as the last boomer plumbers retire. Nobody of our generation wanted to become plumbers and jobs like that, and now there’s a huge shortage. So being a tradesmen isn’t like this terrible thing either. You’re not gonna be a movie star, trust me. Better to not waste any time on that. I wasted my whole 20s trying to be a musician. I would have been much better off not being so insecure that I needed some kind of special status to be cool and get girls, and just focus on a career that’s actually in demand. And if you want status, listen to your Asian parents and become a doctor.

[jorge]

Recently, I read a biography about a woman who decided to become a trader after facing injustices in the film industry. As a CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) professional, she shared her experience of studying for five years, only to then work under temporary contracts with no job security. She highlighted the inequality in income distribution and recognition in the industry, where actors often receive a larger share of the benefits, while CGI experts, who bring essential magic to cinema, are frequently underpaid.

[Not.Jason.from.the.southwest]

After all the training, experience, grueling jobs, and education I finally landed a great job in a cyber-security position. My greatest asset? My ability to endure long period of monotony and boredom punctuated by periods of "the entire world is burning down right now and I am scared." There is a lesson in there somewhere.