Noam Segal: uncertainty

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…There's this interesting also trend, there's this whole meme of don't become part of the permanent underclass. And I feel like there's a few of these threads throughout this. And here it's like, "Okay, I'm a PM, but it's too late. Don't do this. The door is closing for this role. Things are changing." And it's not just PM, it's every role. Everyone's just like, "Maybe should do something else." Yeah, I would agree with that, and I think it's unfortunate. I feel like in the past, people were pushed to CS to learn to code. I know that these days, for myself as a parent, I don't know what to tell my kids to do anymore. I'm not sure what roles will be there for them in just a few years. These are very confusing times, and I think tech employees are feeling that as well. They don't understand what's in line for them in the future, so we certainly don't know to recommend to others like, "Yeah, in five years, it's going to be great. " Get into plastics. It's like no one knows. It's just zoom out for a moment. It's so insane how much change we're living through right now. This is not a result we would've seen a year or two ago. This is so unstable and uncertain, and this is very new for people in tech, I think.…

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