• aidan@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    12
    ·
    3 months ago

    Unions often create barriers to new people entering a field and driving wages down. This is an issue for many devs, like me, because I don’t have a degree, I’m self taught and freelance- I’m worried I’d be forced out of the field or into more formal employment by licensing or other requirements. Neither of which I want.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 months ago

      Yeah every time I’ve ever looked into it there’s always someone talking about “protecting the field from amateurs”. And usually that means protecting the field from people who don’t have a degree.

      I actually do have a degree but it’s in forensics. I just let them fill the blank in for themselves and let them think it’s digital forensics.

      • aidan@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        3 months ago

        Yeah every time I’ve ever looked into it there’s always someone talking about “protecting the field from amateurs”.

        Which I really don’t get, because to my knowledge no disproportionate amount of problems has been caused by self-taught devs.

        It really feels more like either elitism or wanting to protect wages.