Jobs!Jobs!Jobs!

[BuggedOut]

UX/UI design, programming, machine learning, blockchain technologies, task automation and robotics is where I believe the biggest opportunities for work will be in the coming years.

Not in Australia they won't.

I am a professional software developer and this stuff is going offshore at a pretty quick rate. I even facilitated the offshoring of my last paid job to India recently via a global IT corporation whose offices in my area are now more than 50% vacant. This was all because the local steelmaker client (its own survival seriously under threat because of cheap Chinese imports) no longer wanted to pay inflated Australian wages for developer support.

Indian developers get paid about a quarter of my old wage. Bangladeshis get paid about a twentieth. I value my skills and my time a bit more than that so I've moved on.

 

[KiwiGreg]

A refreshingly good thread guys and very topical. I have secondary school age children and I wonder every day where their jobs are going to come from.

A colleague in the States who works in the education sector told me that the universities over there are under pressure for churning out grads with little hope of employment. The big job growths over there are in jobs that cannot be easily outsourced such as mechanics, electricians, plumbers etc. Without going into the spiral of visa abuse to import cheap labour, there are already other pressures impacting the "safe" jobs. Example is mechanics. A normal car has something like 2000 moving parts to wear, be adjusted and wear out. A Tesla has around 20 parts. Not much for the mechanic to do then? For a fascinating glimpse into the very near future, have a look at this. Simply stunning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxryv2XrnqM

Getting back to jobs, I too am in the IT sector. Plenty of pressure with jobs being offshored on one side and disruptors like automated networking on the other side (no more configuring routers and switches with complex routing rules. Just plug 'em in and they build themselves). At least one of our Telco's is rolling this technology into their network already. Have a desire to be an IT hardware engineer? Better get in quick!

I feel that the heady days of "white man's magic" IT salaries are a thing of distant memory. Indian wage rates are creeping up while ours (and more so in the States) are remaining stagnant at best which means in real terms, we are going backwards. We are starting to see US companies moving their offshoring away from India and moving closer to home. Canada, Mexico and some of the poorer states of US are becoming competitive again and don't have the time zone issues, language issues and that most annoying cultural standard with India in that they will (eventually) build what you asked for even if they know that it will not work. "But my widget counter that you built did not work" "Yes, that is right" Did you know that it would not work". "Yes, it will not work". But you built it anyway?" Yes, that is right". My wife has a web development business and as long as parasitic, so called, business mentors continue to spruik bargain basement offshore developers to people that have no clue what to ask for when getting websites and applications built, she has plenty of work fixing up the mess afterwards!

 

[trew]

I am a professional software developer and this stuff is going offshore at a pretty quick rate.

There is a lot more to the IT industry than software development.

 

[Big A.D.]

UX/UI design

UX is what happens when you hire a graphic designer to do a UI designer's job.

 

[Oldsoul]

#include <stdio.h>

void main(void)

{ printf("

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rksCTVFtjM4[/youtube]

\n" );

return 0;
}.

 

[markc]

UX/UI design, programming, machine learning, blockchain technologies, task automation and robotics is where I believe the biggest opportunities for work will be in the coming years.

Not in Australia they won't.

I am a professional software developer and this stuff is going offshore at a pretty quick rate. I even facilitated the offshoring of my last paid job to India recently via a global IT corporation whose offices in my area are now more than 50% vacant. This was all because the local steelmaker client (its own survival seriously under threat because of cheap Chinese imports) no longer wanted to pay inflated Australian wages for developer support.

Indian developers get paid about a quarter of my old wage. Bangladeshis get paid about a twentieth. I value my skills and my time a bit more than that so I've moved on.

That's definitely the case for B2B development but not so much for large internet businesses that focus on selling services and/or products, i.e. seek.com.au, realestate.com.au, etc, etc. Most design and development in those sorts of businesses is handled in-house so the business is able to quickly adapt and change to suit the market, and to protect sensitive technologies and/or information.

 

[markc]

UX/UI design

UX is what happens when you hire a graphic designer to do a UI designer's job.

There is a lot more to UX than just a pretty design.