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Study Shows Teen Gamers Like Tech, But Don't All Crave IT Jobs
CIStud writes "If you think playing endless hours of Dungeons & Dragons will create a desire to get into the information technology, think again. A new study by CompTIA of teens and young adults shows that only 17% want to pursue a technology career despite the fact that 97% say they 'love' technology." This can't be any more surprising than that most concert-goers don't intend to be professional musicians, can it? 17% actually sounds like a pretty high figure to me. The article goes on to soften even that number, though: "[I]nterest levels jump when teens and young adults are presented with options for specific jobs. Nearly half of the respondents can see themselves potentially designing video games; 41 percent envision creating applications for mobile devices; 39 percent, designing web pages; and 34 percent, applying technology in fields such as healthcare or education."
Let's roll to determine your career path. Roll a d20!
"Never give up, for that is just the time and place when the tide will change." -Harriet Beecher Stowe ^_^
Why go into the white collar equivalent?
I (sometimes) enjoy my work, but glamorous it ain't.
Who was thinking about work when you were a teen? (Let alone IT work)
When you're a teen,.. playing Xbox 8 hours a day while getting paid for it would seem like a perfectly legitimate career path.
I, for one, welcome the shift from car analogies to pizza analogies. um.. overlords?
But Firemen aren't the good guys these days. Their wages and benefits are costing the government money that could be better used giving to the rich as tax cuts.