I'm one of these 15 (well, 16)-year-old self-appointed geniuses. Refrain from telling me that I can't hack the real world. As a summer job, I'm network administrator for a class b setup.
The real problem in the world is that the "gurus" upstairs in management believe that due to my age, I'm only worth $6/hour. The part-time, 16-year-old custodial staff members make that much.
The world doesn't realize that I'm probably as qualified as the 50-year-old IBM retiree of thirty years who works full time as my partner.
In the digital age, with everything changing, experience is worthless. Thirty years with IBM mainframes doesn't mean much on a Win2K/NT/Novell network, simply because Windows 2000, NT4, and Netware 5 haven't existed for more than a few years.
Teenagers can jump in at the ground level and have equal footing with those experienced in the most fields, simply because the fields change.
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I'm one of these 15 (well, 16)-year-old self-appointed geniuses. Refrain from telling me that I can't hack the real world. As a summer job, I'm network administrator for a class b setup. The real problem in the world is that the "gurus" upstairs in management believe that due to my age, I'm only worth $6/hour. The part-time, 16-year-old custodial staff members make that much. The world doesn't realize that I'm probably as qualified as the 50-year-old IBM retiree of thirty years who works full time as my partner. In the digital age, with everything changing, experience is worthless. Thirty years with IBM mainframes doesn't mean much on a Win2K/NT/Novell network, simply because Windows 2000, NT4, and Netware 5 haven't existed for more than a few years. Teenagers can jump in at the ground level and have equal footing with those experienced in the most fields, simply because the fields change.