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On 28-Nov-07, at 1:23 PM, midrange-jobs-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
American kids don't want to be programmers because they see the
jobs being off-shored and want to find something that they can be
assured of HAVING a job doing.
My (4) kids want nothing to do with computers because they have seen
the idiotic hours it causes me to work - plus phone calls at all
hours - nearly missing the birth of my third kid while handling an
emergency ...
Besides, if you think that most kids going into college think about
off-shoring you've met a very different bunch of kids to the ones I
have met. Tech is not sexy - it is for nerds and therefore boring.
For us it was an exciting new career opportunity - for them it is the
mundane stuff that drives their iPhone and they don't care. Probably
much the same as we might have felt about a career as a bricklayer.
If they were thinking this far ahead then how do you explain why they
are all seeking soft degrees in the liberal arts arena? The kids are
not _just_ abandoning Comp-Sci - they are abandoning _all_ science
related programs. Enrollment is down in all of them. The threat of
off-shoring doesn't explain that.
Anyway - this debate is going nowhere as it does every time it occurs.
Jon Paris
www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com
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