RE: giving an iSeries system to each college

   Once upon a time, like decades ago, some secondary education had a class
   called "Careers" ... they'd get people to come in from various professions
   to talk about what a normal work day is like, the kind of skills needed,
   what lifetime continuing education needed, and so forth.  What subjects
   you have to be good in school if you are going to be a success in this
   profession.  What you have to get good at, which is not taught in school,
   to be a success in that career, like integrity, inter-person relations,
   design testing in which there's no harm if the test fails.

   In addition to having adults from various walks of life come in, share
   earning potential, benefits, what's needed to qualify for that job,
   there's job market statistics.  So for example, if you choose to become a
   high school drop out, then apply for a job as a janitor, how many other
   people are competing with you to get that job, and does a drop-out really
   qualify for that job anyway?

   Identify job markets that get closed to you if you have a police record,
   or other kinds of bad reputations, so your horizons are more open if you
   avoid that.  What plagarism is and what it will do to your chances of
   getting a college degree.  What can happen to you if you are caught doing
   plagarism in the work place, such as providing your employer with a work
   product for them to sell, that you really copied from a competitor.

   There was also statistics on availability of jobs in general, what kinds
   of jobs being replaced by technology (I guess nowadays by off shoring),
   how many kids major in _______ some subject in college, because that's
   their favorite subject, and find the job market there is microscopic
   compared to the qualified people.

   The class also benefited other faculty & staff who listened in, saw what
   was important in work place today, where educational system not preparing
   the youth.

   I have asked young people who should know & it sounds to me like that
   class is no longer offered in high school.

   Aaron wrote:

     I guess I am finding that they are very open to
     professionals coming in and telling kids

   -
   Al Macintyre
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AlMac
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   BPCS/400 Computer Janitor ... see
   http://radio.weblogs.com/0107846/stories/2002/11/08/bpcsDocSources.html