Why is it so hard to get a job in your actual skill set 🙄😆🤦🏻‍♀️

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Wrong skillset. You learned something really interesting and popular. To beat supply vs demand, you have to do something in demand that no one else wants to do.

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If anyone wants to know why anyone in the modern age would use Fortran, it's simple

When mainframe computers were first being built, there was an enormous effort to show how fast they were compared to others. Everyone wanted to have the fastest computer.

As part of this, there was a Manhattan Project level effort to optimize compilers to run the code they were given as fast as possible to not become a choke point in the operation of the computers. The go to language was fortran so that's the compiler they dedicated their effort towards.

Because of this Manhattan Project level effort towards compiler optimization, fortran code still runs really fast and is still used in supercomputing today at places like Los Alamos and Sandia and in Universities.

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Funny enough that’s how I ended up in consulting lol

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😂🤦🏻‍♀️😆

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You have a skill set??

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Sometimes 🤷🏻‍♀️

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