{"id":1,"date":"2023-01-09T18:29:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T18:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samellison\/?p=1"},"modified":"2023-01-12T22:40:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:40:10","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samellison\/2023\/01\/09\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Care About Where You Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>About 4 years ago, I left my career in the actuarial field with no clear alternative in mind. My primary reason for exiting was a concern with being trapped in the insurance industry for the rest of my career. I may have been foolish to leave a stable field that is widely considered one of the most comfortable jobs in the world, but I knew I wouldn&#8217;t be able to remain in that sector until retirement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During my first undergraduate degree at a STEM school, I heard almost no conversations about the industries that my peers wanted to work in. The prestige of the job they were after was the only important factor. I thought this was concerning then, and as I&#8217;ve gotten older, I&#8217;ve found this personal distancing that STEM workers do from their work interesting. We all have a set of values that inform our decision making, yet I rarely see this inform people in STEM&#8217;s job choices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/ooh\/computer-and-information-technology\/computer-programmers.htm#tab-3\">Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> is not as granular as I would like, but it does show that as programmers, we&#8217;ll have a bit of choice in the sector we end up in. The table below shows the distribution of the largest employers for programmers as of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/6486\/files\/2023\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/6486\/files\/2023\/01\/image.png 732w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/6486\/files\/2023\/01\/image-300x88.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are obviously a lot of additional employers missing, but almost all of these data points encompass a variety of industries. As someone privileged enough to have a comfortable office career with some choice in where I work, I&#8217;ll always be drawing personal lines in the sand around certain industries (and ruining my opportunities at some prestigious companies). If you&#8217;re lucky enough to have the freedom of job mobility, I&#8217;d encourage you to always think about the material impact of your work on the world &#8211; good or bad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 4 years ago, I left my career in the actuarial field with no clear alternative in mind. My primary reason for exiting was a concern with being trapped in the insurance industry for the rest of my career. I may have been foolish to leave a stable field that is widely considered one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samellison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samellison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samellison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samellison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samellison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samellison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samellison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samellison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samellison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samellison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}