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Many of us who went to college in the 1990s saw this. There were so many people who thought that getting a CS, CIS or CIT degree was going to lead to them becom

Many of us who went to college in the 1990s saw this. There were so many people who thought that getting a CS, CIS or CIT degree was going to lead to them becoming dotcom millionaires that it was sad. We had an abundance of IT people with little actual knowledge and even less interest around the time of the dotcom bust. I used to work with a guy who was like that. He was a decent programmer but his limitations made themselves readily apparent when the performance of his code was observed. I guess this is my long-winded way of saying to be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.

humanrebar 10y ago
I also want companies to either pursue vanilla tech stacks or aggressively retrain almost-qualified people for their special-snowflake systems. I think just shoving people into tech is short-sighted. That's not what I want. That being said, much of American youth sees "business", law, medicine, and even entertainment (including sports) as a great way to succeed. We would do well to put engineering, especially IT, on that list.