Death of the IT Profession

could you put a time marker in the description for when you get to the point?

I think he was born a ramblin' man.

skip to 1:25:00 stop at 1:30:00, and 1:52:00 to the end is wisdoms

i would like to know how this man has two hours of free time. i had to go down into the comment section hoping someone would sum up all this in 5 mins or less.

Interesting video Eli, this video definitely applies to my current situation as I am an I/T generalist who is currently out of work. I've been out of work for less than a month and I've been on several interviews very recently and hopefully will have a few job offers this week. Just for a point of reference I live in the Cincinnati metro area so obviously it's a decent sized and relatively healthy market. I also have 12 years of experience in the field and no I am not at 100k yet probably because I don't have any "high end" certifications. I'm in the 50-60 range. Anyway enough background info here's the point of my comment. Partly I think you give users wwwaaayyyy too much credit for how much "self service" they're willing to do as every company I've ever worked at when we've tried to implement those initiatives there has been extreme resistance and we almost always end up doing the tasks for the users anyway because they can't/won't read the instructions for fix their issues. I think the problem is more cultural than technological. As long as companies let their users be stupid and lazy than there will always be a need for "IT" folks regardless of how easy the tech gets. With all of that being said however if I were a young buck not someone who's almost 40 I doubt I would choose "IT generalist" as a career path.

love your videos. especially the content that surrounds the topic you are talking about. you explain it well and always give the pros and cons for the decisions one makes in situations. thank you.

Very informative man, thanks! Good luck on your return!

Thank you Eli for doing this video. It does take a long video to explain all of the details of how things were and how they are changing. I appreciate it very much. Now I don't feel so alone while I'm trying to sort out what to study, or do next, as I struggle like many '90s IT people out there.

Welcome back Eli, you've been greatly missed dude, now do your thang man !!

Thank you for your time eli! helped me out a lot last two years in my tech studies!