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Tech is the Most Lucrative Career: LinkedIn Study (axios.com)
An anonymous reader shares an article: LinkedIn's 2017 U.S. State of Salary report is out, and tech is on top as the most lucrative career. Computer science majors are paid the most, with a median salary of $92,300. Software and IT services is the highest paid industry, with a median total compensation of $104,700.
Article quoted below. Clearly a woman wrote this. An angry disgruntled woman.
Men are greatly overrepresented in the highest-paying industries. Software and hardware tech industries pay the most and have over twice as many males than females. ...
Well, obsession with computers is stereotypically an attractor for people who are autistic (or at least Asperger's)*, antisocial, or obsessive-compulsive (or all of the above). Since autism is overwhelmingly a syndrome affecting males*, this is not surprising.
(and, while being antisocial is something I suppose could be either male or female, in females our society strongly disapproves of it, while in males being antisocial is considered "rugged individualism.")
*Citation: https://autism-help.org/interv... "OBSESSIVE USE OF COMPUTERS BY AUTISTIC CHILDREN... for Autism or Asperger's syndrome, a child can become obsessed with computers..."
https://forums.psychcentral.com/attention-deficit-disorder-add-adhd/275768-computer-rules-hidden-danger-children-adhd-autism.html "As you may have noticed, children with a disorder that falls on the autism spectrum seem to have an intense love of computers."
**citation: http://www.autism.org.uk/about...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4164392/
Most lucrative?
Oh, you mean after medicine, management, finance...
This entire article is LinkeIn clickbait pandering to their target market.
Ignore him. He has issues the main one of which is he has narrowly defined "tech industry" to mean the field he wanted to go into. With his degrees, he has a huge selection of fields but those are all beneath him.
I went to a Christmas part where an A-list band was that we have all heard of...
I worked for a company that we have all heard of...
The guy is a bit off his rocker, throwing out meaningless drivel to drive his ego and blame others for the fact he can't get a job in the field he wanted. He got a tech degree, went into a field that was a limited narrow focus and when that field dried up, rather then look to another field that his degrees applied to, he instead proceeded to say life sucks, I can't get a job and he left.
I can think of about 5 fields, including the one I am working in, where he would be able to get a job in a heart beat. It would have been starting over and working up the ladder, but he could have been up to his 6 figure salary in a few years in a stable market where there is a shortage.