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Can't speak for the US but here, "suit" jobs are generally held to higher regard even if the job no longer requires a suit. Fancy names and a history of good pa

• switchbak 4y ago
  Suit jobs are only highly regarded amongst a subset of the population. I think the more you understand the realities of those jobs, the less appeal they have. There's also certain personality types drawn to those roles which isn't attractive for everyone. I used to look at engineers and think I missed out by not going down that road. Fast forward a few years and it turns out most engineers I talk to see the tech industry as being a much better draw (higher salaries, more jobs, etc).
• robocat 4y ago
  > IT is the outlier in "well-paid office jobs which garner lots of respect" That is a relatively modern thing - I thought IT was relatively unrespected even 20 years ago, although I am not in the US, so maybe different there. I suspect the change was occurring about when Zuckerberg became wealthy, maybe late 00’s? It is fucking bizarre to me seeing “geek” go mainstream (although commercialised geek is definitely different from traditional geek - maybe even incompatibly so?).
  • Falkon1313 4y ago
    I think it was at least 30 years ago. With the dot-com boom and impending Y2K disaster, tech had tons of high-paid jobs, and relatively few people had used computers much if at all. Tech 'wizards' were viewed as mysterious brilliant people who could do magic with a little bit of typing or tinkering.