Three5Eight
November 21st, 2008, 09:12 PM
I've been thinking about a carrer in IT, either in programming or computer repair. I know that IT jobs are in high demand and everyone I talk to says that IT is a very good field to get into because of the fast paced development. Everyone seems to be pointing to IT as the way to go for a secure carrer in the future.
I know a guy that went to college for computers, spent over four years in college and spent thousands of dollars. That was several years ago and today hes working at McDonalds. To this date he hasnt been able to find a job in any IT position.
This may not happen often, maybe he is just unlucky however, I am reading a book by Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup (for those of you who don't know he is the inventer of the C++ programming language). In his book he is talking about the future of IT professionals and it's not sounding all that good.
The fact is that IT is developing so fast and becoming so advanced that its possible in the future IT jobs will be terminated more then created. With the advancement of code generators and similar technology the need for programmers will become less and less. Why pay programmers top dollar to sit there and write code for hours upon hours when you can have a code generator do it in minuets for free (aside from license fees).
Yes, I know code generators are not that advanced YET, but at the rate IT is developing they will be soon. We will still need all the project planners, designers, etc. But the programmers may become useless (aside from those designing the code generators)
The same issue is happening with hardware as well, just look at how its advancing. Years ago when installing ISA hardware you had to have advanced knowledge of computers as there were switches that needed to be set, configurations made, etc. Any older IT people know what I'm talking about. It was very complicated!
Now days almost everything is plug-in-play. Need to change a video card? No problem pop out the old one-pop in the new one. It even comes with instructions telling you how to do it. I have a friend that cannot even run Windows correctly. They have issues running MS Word as they are not that good with computers, yet the other day they added a floppy drive to their computer all on their own simply by reading the instructions that came with the drive.
Things are so easy to install now days why would you even need to take it to a shop to have the installation completed?
True a lot of people now days still are not that good with computers, but they are mostly older people and the problem being they never grew up with the technology, so its hard for them to understand. Now days everyone is required to take computer classes in school, so from now on people will become more and more fimilar with computers.
Soon, I think there will not be a demand for IT professionals at all except in select areas. Even web designers now days are taking hits because the process of designing web pages is no longer a complicated process with all of the new website development wizards around.
I'm interested in knowing how other people in the IT field feel about this issue. Why should I spend the time and money on IT courses and education?
I know a guy that went to college for computers, spent over four years in college and spent thousands of dollars. That was several years ago and today hes working at McDonalds. To this date he hasnt been able to find a job in any IT position.
This may not happen often, maybe he is just unlucky however, I am reading a book by Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup (for those of you who don't know he is the inventer of the C++ programming language). In his book he is talking about the future of IT professionals and it's not sounding all that good.
The fact is that IT is developing so fast and becoming so advanced that its possible in the future IT jobs will be terminated more then created. With the advancement of code generators and similar technology the need for programmers will become less and less. Why pay programmers top dollar to sit there and write code for hours upon hours when you can have a code generator do it in minuets for free (aside from license fees).
Yes, I know code generators are not that advanced YET, but at the rate IT is developing they will be soon. We will still need all the project planners, designers, etc. But the programmers may become useless (aside from those designing the code generators)
The same issue is happening with hardware as well, just look at how its advancing. Years ago when installing ISA hardware you had to have advanced knowledge of computers as there were switches that needed to be set, configurations made, etc. Any older IT people know what I'm talking about. It was very complicated!
Now days almost everything is plug-in-play. Need to change a video card? No problem pop out the old one-pop in the new one. It even comes with instructions telling you how to do it. I have a friend that cannot even run Windows correctly. They have issues running MS Word as they are not that good with computers, yet the other day they added a floppy drive to their computer all on their own simply by reading the instructions that came with the drive.
Things are so easy to install now days why would you even need to take it to a shop to have the installation completed?
True a lot of people now days still are not that good with computers, but they are mostly older people and the problem being they never grew up with the technology, so its hard for them to understand. Now days everyone is required to take computer classes in school, so from now on people will become more and more fimilar with computers.
Soon, I think there will not be a demand for IT professionals at all except in select areas. Even web designers now days are taking hits because the process of designing web pages is no longer a complicated process with all of the new website development wizards around.
I'm interested in knowing how other people in the IT field feel about this issue. Why should I spend the time and money on IT courses and education?