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Gen Y Tech Savvy, But Not Interested in a Career
jcatcw writes "Young people aren't choosing computer science majors because they take technology for granted — it's something to use not something to make a career. "By and large, this generation is very fluent with technology and with a networked world," according to James Ware, executive producer at The Work Design Collaborative LLC, a Berkeley, Calif., consortium exploring workplace values and the future of the workforce. That future may be in managing technology, which requires skills today's college students don't have: writing, critical thinking, hard work and just plain showing up. One of their primary concerns is a flexible schedule and healthy work/life balance."
good. If this bears out then those of us out of college can charge more and more to keep everything running.
If it's too difficult, I can't understand it !
Remember when people would go around saying "I work with computers" when asked what their job was?
Now that would sound like "I work with paper."
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Unlike how we grew up....many of today's kids don't play outside much. They don't get out and meet and interact with the kids in the neighborhood, which teaches some good people skills.
How is this unlike how we grew up?
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Look, kids, I'm what they call a "boomer". They call us that because fireworks and guns were legal when we were kids. What? Speak up, I can't hear you! We were also known as "goddamned potsmoking hippies".
The next generation was called "generation X" or alternately "Goddamned cocaine-soaked Yuppies".
The next generation was Generation Y. They're also known as "Goddamn punks", "Sales Clerks", "fry cooks", "outsourced and unemployed" and "crackheads".
So your nomenclature is a bit off. These kids would be known as "Generation Z" IINM. Also known as "GODDAMNED KIDS GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN!"
-mcgrew
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Agreed. The other day, I asked my Generation Y stepdaughter about her new computer and asked "What's it got?" "I dunno." "How much RAM?" "I dunno." "CPU? Dual core? Clock speed?" "I dunno. I used to know all that stuff, but I just use it now."
OTOH, she's acutely aware of the fact that floppy drives are now obsolete, a fact that still hasn't seemed to seep into my techie stepson's fool head.
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Yeah, I was going to read that story, but then I thought, meh, what would it achieve?
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Oh, plainly! Why, unsupported assertions that critical thinking is dead among These Lousy Kids Today hardly bear questioning!
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Geometry teachers drive '95 Corollas; marketing executives drive this year's BMW.
Using geometric principles, calculate the magnitude of the hotness of the women that each can attract.
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If you're talking about the HTML put out by Myspacers, I think the comparison to COBOL is very apt.
I'm waiting for a "-1 somepeoplejustshouldn'tgetmodprivileges" meta-moderation.
Do I get to use the Theroem of opposite attraction? Or am I stuck with Substitution and Associative properties?
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Yeah, it's kind of like how in scifi stories you get some hyper-advanced alien or a human from the future stuck in our low-tech world and the assumption is "Wow, you can show us all your future tech!" And the reality is more like "Um, no. I can use the technology of my society but don't ask me to try to recreate it from scratch. Hell, I couldn't even maintain it myself."
I would SO buy that book.
But geometry teachers know all the best math-based pickup lines! "I like the area under your curves, let's integrate." Works everytime.
Indeed, children these days are clearly lacking in theology and geometry. Their lack of logic and materialistic endeavors casts doubt upon their very souls! I would regale you with some astute philosophical musings from Boethius, however Lady Fortuna's wheel has spun me downwards and my closed valve is causing me to bloat. To the lavatory I go to seek respite!
Obviously, we can't write like that today because we don't own slaves anymore. Notice how there was a significant drop in writing ability after we got rid of slavery!
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.