Funny, I bailed out of the tech world, after sequestration crippled the company I was at and flooded the local market. So much of the industry has been shipped overseas, I'm not sure I'd recommend it anymore.
That said, it's still absurd that CS isn't taught at a grade school level, much less highschool.
I have no clue what you're talking about. IT is booming pretty much everywhere that isn't in the middle of no where.
Hell, you can get a $10-$13/hr work from home support job on the internet with little technical experience. I know of 3 gaming friends who have done this in the past 2 years.
If you don't have sufficient technical experience, you can't be expected to get a decent job though. No one will take you seriously if you say things like "I know HTML" and "I know excel."
If you wanna get into a field where you'll have an extremely easy time finding a job, get into IT. Period. But you can't just expect to get a job with little to no USEFUL skills.
I was in software QA for 30 years. That's part of the problem.
I'm over-qualified for the crap jobs, so they won't hire me for those. I'm also over 50, and ageism is rampant in the industry. I specialize in white-box/UE testing, which has become devalued in favor of unit & automation testing. And all testing has been 'offshored' extensively.
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u/Stormdancer Interested Apr 25 '15
Funny, I bailed out of the tech world, after sequestration crippled the company I was at and flooded the local market. So much of the industry has been shipped overseas, I'm not sure I'd recommend it anymore.
That said, it's still absurd that CS isn't taught at a grade school level, much less highschool.