Want a Job? Go to College, and Don’t Major in Architecture

Re:Want a Job? Go to College, and Don’t Major in Architecture by rmason on Thursday January 05, 2012 @10:05PM (#3431751)

Engineering is what they warned us to avoid. This was right after the great aerospace layoffs of 1970.

Journalism is the 'hot' major they encouraged. Personally I think college career advice is similar to relying on 14 day weather forecasts here in Michigan.

I had no interest in computer science because I had no desire to wear a white coat in a frigid data center and find hanging chads in punchcards. Yet a few years after graduating I bought one of the first IBM PC's and was using Compuserve and coding in dBase within a year.

Most people graduating from college today are going to have four separate careers during their working life. You need to keep the habit of lifetime learning because the world will change in many interesting ways.

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Re:Want a Job? Go to College, and Don’t Major in Architecture by itsmicks on Friday January 06, 2012 @01:17AM (#3432242)

I seem to remember a lot of media coverage in the early 90s when I was younger about how almost all software engineering would be outsourced. Definitely played into my thought process years later when I majored in architecture ;-)

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