And when they start hiring juniors again, insist on onboarding those motherfuckers like you’re teaching a CS degree. The young’ns deserve to learn, this is some bullshit.
Only semi-related but check for local computer clubs/maker spaces in your area. Ours does everything from tutoring/group learning to monthly LAN parties. Learning CAD from Youtube is okay, learning CAD while being able to ask questions of a professional engineer is even better!
I’ve been helping people move to/learn Linux (we have a bunch of donated Windows 10 desktop hardware to play with), it’s pretty rewarding to teach people who actually want to learn (training new hires who are clearly bored is not so much…) and we usually end up giving them the machine that they’re learning on if they need it.
Just another way to pass it on and get some offline nerd socialization, if you’re into that kind of thing.
my main side project is software to create libraries of things and federate them - and part of that is I’m setting up a library here in Barcelona this year.
And part of what we’ll hope to be offering is basically free tech education along those lines. Eventually I’d love to see us training people to develop, providing our own hosted LLM, and making software for the community all without the need to interact with the shitty capitalist profiteering world.
The onus is on us, we senior tech workers, to gouge the absolute shit out of future companies to show them the error of their ways.
And when they start hiring juniors again, insist on onboarding those motherfuckers like you’re teaching a CS degree. The young’ns deserve to learn, this is some bullshit.
Only semi-related but check for local computer clubs/maker spaces in your area. Ours does everything from tutoring/group learning to monthly LAN parties. Learning CAD from Youtube is okay, learning CAD while being able to ask questions of a professional engineer is even better!
I’ve been helping people move to/learn Linux (we have a bunch of donated Windows 10 desktop hardware to play with), it’s pretty rewarding to teach people who actually want to learn (training new hires who are clearly bored is not so much…) and we usually end up giving them the machine that they’re learning on if they need it.
Just another way to pass it on and get some offline nerd socialization, if you’re into that kind of thing.
my main side project is software to create libraries of things and federate them - and part of that is I’m setting up a library here in Barcelona this year.
And part of what we’ll hope to be offering is basically free tech education along those lines. Eventually I’d love to see us training people to develop, providing our own hosted LLM, and making software for the community all without the need to interact with the shitty capitalist profiteering world.
I didn’t see this comment when the thread was active, wish you the very best though, this sounds lovely!