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IT - a fall back opportunity...

I don't mean to demean teachers & teaching but 'IT' has become what teaching had become to any university graduate before 1995 - a fall back opportunity in case you couldn't think of anything more interesting to do with your life. I remember quite a few graduates of the early 1990's who did teacher training just because they couldn't be bother to work out what they wanted to do with their lives, not exactly an encouraging state of affairs for the education system. It was only a fictitious TV show but Teachers hit the mark for me. And now we're reaping the reward of this thinking in the computer industry, notice I don't say IT, I hate the expression 'IT', when ever I hear someone say I work in 'IT' - it tells me ' I couldn't be bother to work out what I wanted so I chased the easy money...' . I'm not saying you have to have a PhD in 'pixel fibrillation and the effects on digital e-commerce' to work in this ind...