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Re:On sexism in the tech industry - rebuttal by belorn on Friday October 12, 2012 @11:00AM (#4645298)
Its interesting that the tech industry has so high number of people that learned the basic work skills at a very low age.

Very few other professions has this. A plumber did not go around fixing pipes at age 10. A medic, while they might have played doctor, do not really learn any of the basic skills until hitting university education. The lawyer when he was 10 is unlikely to be reading law documents.

Beyond maybe the mechanic profession, what other professions beyond IT has this property?

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Re:On sexism in the tech industry - rebuttal by Cushman on Friday October 12, 2012 @11:12AM (#4645358)
How about writers?

If that's too cheap a shot, I believe most professional musicians began learning their instrument as children, though I struggle to find a source for that belief.

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Re:On sexism in the tech industry - rebuttal by trhtrsh on Friday October 12, 2012 @11:50AM (#4645541)
> A medic, while they might have played doctor, do not really learn any of the basic skills until hitting university education.

The medics I know personally:

* Volunteered in ER in high school -> Doctor

* EMT and high-hours babysitting in college -> Children's Therapist

Also, sports profession :-)

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Re:On sexism in the tech industry - rebuttal by stephencanon on Friday October 12, 2012 @12:03PM (#4645597)
My wife: Swam competitively, studied philosophy and religion as an undergrad -> Neurosurgeon.

More anecdata: all of the best engineers I know came to it late, after doing other things first.

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Re:On sexism in the tech industry - rebuttal by Swizec on Friday October 12, 2012 @11:43AM (#4645504)
Chemistry comes to mind. Actually, all fields of the natural sciences seem to have an extent of people playing around with X when they were just children and then somehow magically going on to doing it after high school as well.

Actually, I would go so far as saying every profession with a high ratio of very passionate people and low-ish barrier to entry will exhibit something like this.

Sports are a magnificent example.

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