When IT Was Blue Collar

Has the upper-middle class been taking jobs from the lower-middle class? Yes.

Andrew Jaye
6 min readFeb 14, 2024

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When I first started working in the software world, I had a cube in a sprawling suburban office building filled with cubes as far as the eye could see. I was a programmer in an Information Technology department for a legacy telecom company. Fresh out of college with a liberal arts background…

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Andrew Jaye

Former privacy and data security blogger. Part-time workplace sociologist. Opinions are for better or worse his own. More about me at metaphorly.com.