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It is really bad to recruit teens into IT industry. Let them enjoy their life till 21 or 22.

• Hexstream 18y ago
  I enjoy life much more now that I work in computing than I ever did playing video games... Which is probably what lots of teens would define as "enjoying life"... There's this popular misconception that work and play are opposites and I find that really sad. I don't see a problem recruiting teens for a job if that's where their interest lies. There's lots of wasted potential out there.
• markbao 18y ago
  Hell, my idea of enjoying life is hacking around and coding products. Not many things are better than learning useful stuff. check profile for age
  • andreyf 18y ago
    > Hell, my idea of enjoying life is hacking around and coding products. Not many things are better than learning useful stuff. check profile for age At 16, I probably would have said the same thing, but only 5 years later, I'd advise you that there's no rush. There is really a lot of time in life to be great at useful stuff and learn a great many things on the side. My idea of enjoying life in college was falling in love, traveling, and taking poetry classes. If I could do it again, I'd replace my CS classes with drama and a foreign language (studying abroad), and spend free time learning CS on my own. (I'd keep the Math major for the mental rigor) There is nothing in a CS class you can't get out of a book/working on OSS projects, but a lot more you can learn about life with a good acting, literature, or history class than you'll have time to for most of your life afterward.