People telling all the software devs to learn a trade: Oh, you really, really don't know how hard the boomers have actually made it to do that, at least in the US, probably elsewhere. Almost none of them want to hire apprentices without schooling (which is expensive as fuck, and arguably unnecessary, given the entire trades system is SUPPOSED to be an alternative), and even WITH school people come up against walls like "$12/hr starting pay" and/or "need 5 years experience." Because these places are run by Boomers so wildly divorced from the cost of living they truly don't get it. They are like fully incapable of understanding. Boomers genuinely, honest to god, do not want to train anyone. They will sooner die with a pipe wrench in their hand than train new people. They just want experience to fall into their lap like magic and make it "someone else's problem."