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Techies Keen to Keep Jobs In the Family

Posted by timothy on from the do-you-feel-the-same-way dept.

Stony Stevenson writes "IT staff are 'overwhelmingly' happy to recommend their profession to their children, a survey has found. Three-quarters of nearly 1,000 IT professionals surveyed said that they would 'definitely recommend' a career in the business to their offspring. Around 70 percent also felt that their jobs are secure, and that they are expecting a salary increase next year. The survey also found that 86 per cent of respondents expect to move jobs voluntarily in the next three years."

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  1. Rebellion by peipas · · Score: 5, Funny

    You have this idea of how your child should be and what they should like, and then they shatter your dreams when they start playing sports and getting girlfriends.

    1. Re:Rebellion by BLAG-blast · · Score: 3, Funny

      I have this dream my child will play sports and have girlfriends (and/or boyfriends up to them which).

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    2. Re:Rebellion by Gilmoure · · Score: 2, Funny

      I thought the giant ants would force us to work in the sugar mines first. Or will the robots liberate us so we can make robot juice for them?

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    3. Re:Rebellion by Gilmoure · · Score: 4, Funny

      My daughter's seven and has already told us (wife and I work on same help desk) that fixing computers is boring and she wants to be an artist. Luckily, we're setting up a clay studio, wood and metal working shop and painting studio at home for all of us. I figure, around 12, she'll rebel from hippy artist life and become a programmer or dba.

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    4. Re:Rebellion by avronius · · Score: 2, Funny

      Canadia and Washington D.C. are filled with unscrupulous bad people who want to take my guns, childrens, and beer from me Your guns? Sure, we'll take those.
      Your children? Yeah, what the heck - they're small so we'll take those too.
      But your beer? Not even at gunpoint...
    5. Re:Rebellion by zippthorne · · Score: 3, Funny

      Perhaps. But Hitler was a much better painter than Pollock...

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  2. They can pick any career they want by nizo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Though one advantage of IT is they can earn quite a bit of money to help me afford a retirement home, and then when they are a burned out husk of a person after 20 years of stress they will have more time to come take care of me.

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  3. wow by damn_registrars · · Score: 5, Funny

    They found 1,000 IT professionals that have offspring?

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    1. Re:wow by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      They found 1,000 IT professionals that have offspring?
      An interesting coincidence is that none of them have Slashdot accounts.
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  4. Well of course! I'm part of that 75% by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Three-quarters of nearly 1,000 IT professionals surveyed said that they would 'definitely recommend' a career in the business to their offspring.

    I'm part of that 75%.

    I would unhesitatingly recommend a career in IT to my offspring, were I having kids.

    Except that I don't want kids. So I would also unhesitatingly have a vasectomy, were I planning on having sex.

    Except that this is Slashdot... So even the sex part is a pretty big stretch.

    But if I were to hypothetically have sex, and if I were hypothetically not going to sterilize myself to prevent kids, and if I were hypothetically to have kids, then by all means, I'd be damned if I wasn't going to get at least some measure of revenge on 'em.

  5. In other news by corbettw · · Score: 5, Funny

    75% of IT professionals hate their children.

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  6. Steve Jobs? by rackrent · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, if I were related to a guy with that much money, I'd like to keep him in the family as well!

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  7. child abuse by mytrip · · Score: 2, Funny

    Convincing your kids to go into IT is kind of telling them to run out in front of a bus. Except the pain from the bus will not last as long.

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  8. That's My Boy... by beadfulthings · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm very proud of the son who followed me into IT. When he got his first "real" job, the joke was that he handed them a copy of my resume and said, "You have to hire me. This woman is my mother, and I have her DNA." (He didn't actually do that, but it's become a tradition to say so.) The other joke, which is actually true, is that people in his shop do not refer to side cutters as "dikes," out of deference to my gender if not my inclination. They're always called "side cutters" or "diagonals" in my honor.

    Since then he has far surpassed me in knowledge and skill. I listen to him with great care, ask his opinions, and often follow his advice. Above all, I delighted with him and of all he's accomplished. I do worry a little bit about the twitch he's developed in one eye...

    If he's reading, I'll just add: Son, I'm really, really sorry I bought the DLink router. I was in a hurry that day. Next time, I'll buy the one you suggested. Oh. And, grandchildren???

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