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Discussion in 'IT and Computer-Related Degrees' started by uncle janko, Oct 20, 2005.

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  1. uncle janko

    uncle janko member

    Hi everybody. I never post in this forum because of total ignorance (merely fractional ignorance encourages me to post in the other fora). I just peered in to wish all of you the best in finding good programmes and success in them. Good luck to all of you. Janko
     
  2. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Well, hello to you too, although this forum is usually pretty dormant. I guess since the end of the dot-com bubble the lure of IT degrees has waned.

    -=Steve=-
     
  3. sentinel

    sentinel New Member

    Whether the overall decline interest in IT careers or degrees can be attributed to the dot-com bust or perhaps merely a shakeout of the gold rush mentality among those seeking employment is open for debate. Many of those late comers to the IT world during the 1990s had neither the aptitude nor the passion, beyond the high renumeration, to be in this field. Having worked my way up the experience ladder I still see people who should be shown the door or better yet never allowed through that door in the first place.

    The Microsoft point-n-click dumbing down of so-called information technology workers is scary and a worldwide pandemic.
     
  4. DesElms

    DesElms New Member

    It actually started (and, I would argue, continues in larger measure even now) with the Mac; but, either way, you could not be more correct.
     
  5. spmoran

    spmoran Member

    Sentinel, this was well stated. I can remember when training companies were canvassing McDonalds locations trying to sign up the crew members for their over priced paper-MCSE programs. During those heady days, my wife was builing a degree in database design and administration at her college and I was a developer at MSFT (I mention that because we met when she recruited me to help design the program). The program had a good run, but now, not so much. There are lots of experienced Oracle database administrators out of work, so her students are finding it very difficult to find work. We're working on dismantling the program and replacing it with a .Net-based degree. Times change.
     

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