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How much upshifting in jobs has occurred?

Before the pandemic we talked about unfilled jobs looking for computer programmers and other higher paid positions. How many people moved from 'social' jobs to ones that required more skills but pay more?



You mean all those underemployed software engineers and all the trained programmers forced to wait tables because they couldn’t get a programming job?

That is not how I remember the world in 2019.


You took that the wrong way. Software engineers moved up. I've gotten 2 promotions since the pandemic started. I'm talking about people shifting industries in to ones that have been short staffed, like programming, and leaving the crap jobs behind.




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