Dismantling the Myth of IT Being a Dead-End Career

Lam1969 writes "Robert Mitchell says CIOs and other IT managers continue to bemoan what they claim is a shortage of good technologists. He suggests beefing up salaries and convincing young people that IT is a viable long-term career path would help to change this sentiment. Mitchell also says the threat of offshoring is overstated; rather, the problem is industry and the media have been 'complicit in propagating the myth that IT is a dead end.' From the story: 'First, the dot-com crash shattered the illusion that those in high-tech jobs would always emerge from economic turbulence unscathed. Now, students are hearing that a four-year degree in programming or engineering doesn't matter because all of those jobs will eventually go offshore to foreign workers at very low wages. A generation has been dissuaded from pursuing what is in reality a very promising career choice.'"

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dead end eghhh

[wwmedia]

when i was in 3rd year in uni

i was making average 500euro a day ;) thanks to personal determination and great interest in my Soft Eng course (that was few years ago, things are alot better now)

in the meantime my friends from commerce and arts where working in local supermarkets and mcdonnalds (some of them still do )

as an added bonus i get to work rom home now and read /. every so often and not have to cook burgers for some snotty kids

Bill O'Reilly

[stinky wizzleteats]

Great post. But I can't bring myself to vote for someone who believes that the first amendment should be reserved exclusively to those who are paid professionally to exercise it.