South Park

I‘m also a software engineer and I don’t feel attacked at all. I make a point to learn other skills too. When I was 24, I didn’t know how to change a damn shower head. A roommate had to help me. I was embarrassed AF and made a point to be better from then on. Do I know enough to start a handyman business today? Fuck no. But maybe someday. Specialization is for insects.

You don’t see too many young handymen, because there’s no school, no certs, for that. It’s mainly just owning a house, fixing shit yourself, fucking up repeatedly, learning, remaining curious. Also, volunteering for things like Habitat for Humanity, where there’s retired construction folks who are willing to teach us clueless people how to do things. Then you’re 45 or so and start a side business doing all the same shit for people who can’t be bothered.

I think they’re attacking these muppets in our industry who rant about how college is a useless scam, when in reality, it’s those individuals who are useless. They’re attacking the AI con artists. I fucking loved the subplot of this episode. I’ve heard these stupid arguments way too often IRL, from people with severe main character syndrome, who would’ve rapidly fallen into gaming and alcohol addiction if they didn’t go to college and tried to be self-taught. They don’t teach themselves anything else in life (insert oven door plot here), how the fuck would they bootstrap a career?

These people also know nothing about the trades either, and it shows. Like, becoming a licensed plumber takes years, and they have to take courses at the community college too. They think you just leave high school, get in the trade job cannon, and go to blue collar job land, where jobs grow on jobbies… the only difference is, plumbing apprentices start earning a wage a couple years before a SWE starts an internship. That’s about it.