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."

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Re:Has anything really changed?

[LoofWaffle]

...people keeping these systems running and designing new ones... People that keep the systems running fall into the IT category, people that design new systems (I'm talking hardware specifically, but i'll concede software too for original IP) are engineers. And no, putting a bunch of commercial-off-the-shelf parts together does not constitute "designing a new system"