Mario Rozario
Dec 2, 2024

Herein lies the problem. These skills are clearly evolving, but the only folks who have the time to truly deep dive in and immerse themselves into this new tech are those who have loads of time on their hands. Associates who have day-to-day jobs of their own where their working days are laced with back-to-back meetings can do little justice to this. Well of course they could take a course or two, despite all they're doing, but they're not going to be as engrossed or thorough as those who are exploring this full time. Who has the time to explore these technologies? Those who are on a break or who have been let go from their jobs (which are a lot)! This is a catch-22 situation.

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Mario Rozario
Mario Rozario

Written by Mario Rozario

Tech Evangelist, voracious reader, aspiring thought leader, public speaker

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You are absolutely right! I'm writing about how to make the transition in next month's Tech Job Watch article. I love your thoughts on this and will consider this while doing research. Thanks for reading!

Also, it seems companies are looking for "new" people with PhD's and not looking for experienced database developers/DBAs to upskill to ML. I used to get pinged 4-5 times a week by recruiters before the COVID firings (and "making way for AI…