Mention that most jobs involve: 1. Pushing paper around, and/or, 2. Kissing ass to [bosses|customers|random people on the phone] Programmers, by contrast, ac

Mention that most jobs involve: 1. Pushing paper around, and/or, 2. Kissing ass to [bosses|customers|random people on the phone] Programmers, by contrast, actually get to create something, like craftsmen of the past. One of the very few jobs where that is true. Nix the word "hacker". It either has a bad connotation or is an unrealistic ambition for 7th graders (to those who understand the "good" connotation, a hacker is a person of rare abilities.)