I Love Tech. I Hate the Tech Industry.
Oct 6, 2026 · By Olimi Emmanuel K Six years. Two degrees. A MicroMasters from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Real projects, real code, real nights spent debugging. And in all that time, not one job offer, not one contract, not one paid gig from any of it. People hear "master's degree" and "New York" and picture someone who made it. They tell me I must be smart. They say it with real admiration. I have learned that admiration does not pay rent. Here is the confusing part: I love technology. I have loved it since I was a kid pulling radios and old motherboards apart to see what was inside. What I have come to hate is the industry built around it, the one that tells the whole world to come in, learn, and be rewarded, and then quietly keeps the door for a much smaller group. This is not a polite article. It is what six years of silence looks like when you stop blaming yourself long enough to read the data. Some numbers made me angrier. A few made m...