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'Blockchain Developer' is the Fastest-Growing US Job (venturebeat.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the market-demands dept.

"Blockchain developer" is the top emerging job in the U.S. -- according to data published in LinkedIn's 2018 U.S. Emerging Jobs report. From a report: [...] Using data gleaned from the LinkedIn Economic Graph, which serves as a "digital representation of the global economy" by analyzing the skills and job openings from across 590 million members and 30 million companies, LinkedIn found that "blockchain developers" has grown 33-fold in the past four years. In this case, "emerging jobs" refers to the growth of specific job titles on LinkedIn profiles in the period between 2014 and 2018. It's worth noting here that "blockchain" didn't appear anywhere in the top 20 emerging jobs in 2017, while "machine learning engineer" topped the list last year -- it's in second place this year.

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  1. And in another year.. by pak9rabid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And in another year, will be the fastest dying US job.

    1. Re:And in another year.. by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 2

      If I've learnt anything about IT; it's almost impossible to predict anything so sweeping accurately; and for a field based in logic it can be very illogical.

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    2. Re:And in another year.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Blockchains are useful for certain things, but not the majority of the hyped products in development. There are simpler, cheaper, more reliable ways to do most things people are trying to shoehorn into blockchain. A block chain is just a signature verifiable log database with all of the issues a log database has plus limitations imposed by the verification requirements.

  2. xkcd again... by fibonacci8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    https://xkcd.com/1102/

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    1. Re:xkcd again... by pushing-robot · · Score: 2

      Also https://xkcd.com/605/

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  3. "Fastest-growing" is the lamest marketing language by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I start something, and convert one other person to it, that's 100% growth in a day! Fastest-growing foo!
    And going from zero to one, that's an infinite growth rate!

  4. It's from INFINITY % since 1950! by DalM · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also a little reported fact:

    More than 50% of American blockchain developers are expected to die before the age 80. Clearly this field needs regulation.

  5. Blockchain is new in the cloud by sinij · · Score: 2

    Blockchain is new in the cloud. If your manager isn't already in on it, he will be shortly out of a job and replaced by another inane MBAonkey fully versed in modern corporate jargon.

  6. Statistical illiteracy by sjbe · · Score: 2

    Seriously are we that bad at statistics? It's a job that didn't exist until very recently. Any time you increase something from near zero the percentage growth is going to sound like a lot. Going from 1 to 1000 is a big percentage growth. Much bigger than going from 100,001 to 101,000 even though the absolute growth is identical.

    The actual number of blockchain developer jobs is a rounding error as an absolute number. There are plenty of other jobs growing MUCH faster in terms of absolute numbers.

  7. how about blockchain DBA? by known_coward_69 · · Score: 2

    any future in that?

  8. Top Five Disadvantages of Blockchain Engineering by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Funny

    5) Having to carve out each block from various types of stone to examine performance.

    4) Around Christmas, all of your co-workers see you with working the chains and start calling you "Ghost of Christmas Past".

    3) Every four minutes having to explain what Blockchain is, usually to the same people.

    2) Satoshi constantly sliding into your DM's.

    1) Everyone can verify with absolutely distributed certainly your love life is dead.

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  9. Re: Dip but not a die off by phantomfive · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've interviewed with a couple of these startups. Some of them are ICOs that made a ton of money ripping people off and now are vaguely trying to appear legitimate. Some of them are trying to be trading platforms for bit coin (or whatever). I'll be honest: I haven't seen any that felt remotely worth working for (worth being defined as: not a scam and will probably someday turn the equity into cash). The real problem is that no realistic use for block chain has been found yet, other than a currency. Etherium is fun, but we had an article not long ago explaining how it's not particularly practical.

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