Insultingly low pay? Fresh out of a 4-year college, your average salary will be 50% more than a teacher, and they need a masters!
Nearly illegal hours? Care to guess how long doctors, lawyers, engineers, and managers work? I'll give you a hint, it's also a lot.
Disrespectful management? Everyone gets this from time to time. If it's that bad, quit. Not all managers are disrespectful.
Jobs moving overseas? Go tell some layed off factory workers. I'm sure they'd love to hear how much you're suffering.
Fact is, IT workers have it far, far better than the average American/citizen of (insert your country here). You make good money, and your job isn't physically dangerous. Yes, it's not all butterflies and cupcakes, but no job is, barring rockstars and whatnot. Try being more positive, and realizing just how well off you are. It goes a long way.
"Proprietary software is going downhill. Just about every major software vendor that remains proprietary is losing marketshare and money." Care to cite some examples? Last I checked, proprietary OS's dominate the desktop market. No one I know uses open source CAD tools for any project of significance. Video games are, of course, closed source. Certainly, there are markets where open source is dominant, or at least competitive, but there are plenty of markets where it hasn't even made a dent.
Those markets are profitable for closed source companies, and it is in the best interest of employees and shareholders of those companies to keep it that way. So how is it "bad teaching" to instruct future managers on how to compete? Would it be better to teach them to roll over?
But let's be honest. When you say, "Open source is the future, proprietary software is dying," it is not because that's the way it is. It's because that's the way you want it to be.
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Insultingly low pay? Fresh out of a 4-year college, your average salary will be 50% more than a teacher, and they need a masters!
Nearly illegal hours? Care to guess how long doctors, lawyers, engineers, and managers work? I'll give you a hint, it's also a lot.
Disrespectful management? Everyone gets this from time to time. If it's that bad, quit. Not all managers are disrespectful.
Jobs moving overseas? Go tell some layed off factory workers. I'm sure they'd love to hear how much you're suffering.
Fact is, IT workers have it far, far better than the average American/citizen of (insert your country here). You make good money, and your job isn't physically dangerous. Yes, it's not all butterflies and cupcakes, but no job is, barring rockstars and whatnot. Try being more positive, and realizing just how well off you are. It goes a long way.
"Proprietary software is going downhill. Just about every major software vendor that remains proprietary is losing marketshare and money." Care to cite some examples? Last I checked, proprietary OS's dominate the desktop market. No one I know uses open source CAD tools for any project of significance. Video games are, of course, closed source. Certainly, there are markets where open source is dominant, or at least competitive, but there are plenty of markets where it hasn't even made a dent.
Those markets are profitable for closed source companies, and it is in the best interest of employees and shareholders of those companies to keep it that way. So how is it "bad teaching" to instruct future managers on how to compete? Would it be better to teach them to roll over?
But let's be honest. When you say, "Open source is the future, proprietary software is dying," it is not because that's the way it is. It's because that's the way you want it to be.