Posted on 03/19/2015 2:14:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yeah. Very true: the need changes quickly.
Half of these will be out of vogue in 2 years.
The reason they pay so much is they are looking for someone with 3 years experience in a specific discipline that’s 2 years old....
Hen’s teeth...
Bkmrk
This article did not mention the one thing that will kill your chances in high tech regardless of your skill set....if you are over the age of 45 you may well be a goner in terms of ever working in high tech again
It’s interesting that a number of years ago, Java was considered a “throwaway language”.
Sun Micro virtually gave it away.
A hunnert n' ten thou ...
PLUS a salary ?
Not true. They really don’t care if you are a contractor how old you are.
Then you get to train your H1-B replacement who will work for 25% of that.
Very true.
Plumbers,HVAC techs,boilermakers,machinist etc. can make 6 figures a year if they are skilled enough and work hard. But the College elites will always look down on them, even while their former College graduates are waiting tables.
ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE.
You just have to be able to keep up...and that requires a kind of energy that is not common for those over 45.
But I'm 59 and doing very well in tech.
IT is still very lucrative. The key is as with anything which is to get in the door and gain experience. Anything related to rdbms/big data will always be a winner. The need to acquire, process, and make data actionable is only going to grow. Some of the list above will be gone in the next few years but learning to code and learning databases and technology is never a loser especially if you know how to generalize your experience and apply it to new areas in order to learn new things.
But Milton Friedman said "There is no free lunch."
So we all found out that our browsers were chock full of holes that worms and viruses and hackers could get through. So we ended up spending hundreds of dollars on anti-virus software and firewalls.
They gave JAVA away for free.
And now we find out it is chock full of holes and code is being written by kids with less than a year's worth of experience and we have even more bugs and worms and viruses and hackers to worry about.
Be careful what you ask for. You might just get it.
So we all found out that our browsers were chock full of holes that worms and viruses and hackers could get through. So we ended up spending hundreds of dollars on anti-virus software and firewalls.
And the first Automobiles were built without brakes.
agreed, I am 60 started at nasa/langley, grew into multi=discipline engineering, have been working for German company for many years, highest tech machinery in the world, we cannot find young folks capable of handling the technoogy, school does not get you ready, just teaches one how to talk the language.
Experience matters greatly..
Even dealing with the relatively small gigabytes worth of data that I have to deal with, I spend a lot of time massaging data sets so that they can all be corralled and used effectively together.
I imagine that large corporations that deal with terabytes or petabytes of data have rooms filled with H-1B drones that write dozens of data converters so that a few math PhD's can work their wonders on the aggregated results.
Even big data doesn't sound like a likely career path for the number of STEM students graduating each year.
Even the first cars cost money.
I am in the Data Center power back-up business and it seems quite lucrative. New installs every week and ongoing service/ support.
Good for folks that don’t let a little 480 bother them.
And I actually Bought a copy of Mosaic after a number of failed attempts to download it.
I don’t think there was any illusion about its perfection like there is today regarding virtually everything you buy.
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