Interestingly, an additonal 15,000 manufacturing jobs; 26,000 construction jobs; and 91,000 healthcare and education jobs.
The only industries that saw severe layoffs were Financial Services and Information/Software.
toomuchtodo•1h ago
Healthcare will carry the economy, 4M Boomers retire every year and these jobs cannot be offshored like finance and tech.
alephnerd•41m ago
Also manufacturing. If you know how to code and real engineering skills like circuits, CAD, mechanical design, etc you will land a decent manufacturing role.
That said, why hire a SWE when most MechE programs have been requiring CS courses as well for over a decade now.
alephnerd•1h ago
The only industries that saw severe layoffs were Financial Services and Information/Software.
toomuchtodo•1h ago
alephnerd•41m ago
That said, why hire a SWE when most MechE programs have been requiring CS courses as well for over a decade now.
toomuchtodo•19m ago
The U.S. is losing manufacturing jobs, analysis finds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45189816 - September 2025 (7 comments)
Promises of a US manufacturing Renaissance leave experts scratching their heads - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44941126 - August 2025 (5 comments)
Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we have? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43987654 - May 2025 (1 comment)
Manufacturing jobs are never coming back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43777941 - April 2025 (0 comments)
The US service economy is ~83% of GDP. Manufacturing only makes up 8% of jobs in the US.
Citations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529223