The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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One thing I would bear in mind is that people have been predicting that programming would be a dead job for a long time now. When I was a teenager (circa the turn of the century), I had adults tell me that there was no future in programming and I should learn computer repair instead. Needless to say, programming is still quite lucrative and computer repair is not.
The reality is that we just don't know what will happen. Neither you, nor me, nor anyone. Your fears may come to pass, but then again they may not. Whenever you feel anxious I would just remember that people have made predictions like yours before and been dead wrong. As far as what to do on a practical basis, it's the same as it ever has been. Keep your skills current because the industry constantly changes. Be ready to adapt to new trends and become good at those things. We don't work in a business where you will retire doing the same exact job as you are doing today, but that has been the case for a long time.
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