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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Yeah. The idea that people take postal jobs because they're ill-equipped (or not educated enough) to do do higher-skilled jobs doesn't really hold water. Not in the US, anyway. People of all education levels clamor for postal jobs because the pay's more than adequate, the benefits are fantastic, and the workload light. People stay with the Post Office because they want to, not because the have to.
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Lucky them over there. Over here in the Netherlands, taking a job as a postman or package delivery guy is almost the last thing you want to do. Benefits are bad, pay is low, and working hours are idiotic.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Nothing new under the sun here. Where did the Buggy-whip manufacturer's employees go to work when cars came along? This is the way of the world. Always has been. I just don't get the angst.  |
The problem is that you need to know more and more to stay working; and even if you don't need to know more, companies require degrees. More and more people are getting to the point where they don't have, or can't acquire the needed knowledge or degrees wanted by companies.
Switching to a field outside of your expertise is slowly becoming impossible, at least in the Netherlands. I've got more than a decade of software engineering experience, and I've programmed in everything from assembler to C, C++, C#, Javascript, PHP4 through 7, and several PLC-related languages. I've been doing PHP7 and PLC's for the last couple of years, but when trying to switch to a job requiring C or Python or whatever, I'm treated as some sort of just-out-of-school kid and get told that I don't have enough experience 'with the required tools'.
Try to convince a recruiter that learning a new programming language takes like... well... half a day or so. And a few weeks to get up to speed with the default libraries and frameworks. That's the entire problem: you don't have, or get those few weeks.
If it's hard to switch *within* your own expertise (different versions), then try switching *out* of it. For example, me trying to get a job as a lawyer... or mechanical enineer. Not gonna happen.