I love how the trend in tech seems to be to shift 100% of responsibility for professional development to the employee.

[mctoasterson@reddthat.com]

I love how the trend in tech seems to be to shift 100% of responsibility for professional development to the employee.

"Just get some certs on your own and build a homelab."

Yeah, I have 2 degrees and a bunch of certs, of which many require CEU or renewal costs. Everytime I ask for professional development it's "yeah there might be some budget for this one specific thing next quarter".

[softestsapphic@lemmy.world]

It's really cruel because no amount of education will prepare people for the inevitable first year it takes to actually learn all the ass backwards ways they have of doing things that only that specific workplace does and everyone does it differently.

Every impoetant piece of tech has a borderline unworkable backend that is 20 years of hack jobs taped together that you can't change or improve or it all collapses.

But yeah they expect college to prepare you for that lmao.

[thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world]

Yep, oh my god what a shock it was. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing

[darkdarkhouse@lemmy.sdf.org]

And selfhosting your own homelab is primarily open technologies that are leagues better than the ancient CRM system at work.

[thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world]

Yep yep yep