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.
airza 1 hours ago [-]
There was a healthcare strike that ended this month which counts as added jobs iirc
toomuchtodo 3 hours ago [-]
Healthcare will carry the economy, 4M Boomers retire every year and these jobs cannot be offshored like finance and tech.
alephnerd 2 hours 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.
The only industries that saw severe layoffs were Financial Services and Information/Software.
That said, why hire a SWE when most MechE programs have been requiring CS courses as well for over a decade now.
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