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To: SkyPilot
"Ringler, a 49-year-old computer technician..."

Mmm... Since when is a computer technician position considered "blue collar"? I thought that these were the kinds of jobs those old fashioned factory workers were supposed to be training for once we shipped all of the manufacturing jobs over seas. I guess we all need to start training to be computer engineers. Until of course those jobs also start to be considered "blue collar".

5 posted on 05/18/2009 6:57:02 PM PDT by Desron13 (If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
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To: Desron13

My computer programmer brother told me 15 years ago that programming is the “blue collar job of the future.”

Looks like he was right.

And me—never thought I’d ever have to learn to program a computer—female, bad at math, 40 yrs old, mom to 4, zero interest in computers—my employer last year asked me to learn Visual Basic for Applications, for Excel, and I have.

Pigs fly. . .

Soon we will all be programmers. It’s simply the future.


21 posted on 05/18/2009 8:01:01 PM PDT by olivia3boys
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To: Desron13
Mmm... Since when is a computer technician position considered "blue collar"?

He probably sets up them up, plugs this into that, fixes jammed printers and maybe changes out parts. That would be what we call a "technician" like in HVAC technician. I'm blue collar, a Plant Engineering Technician and I spend more time with computers than anything since most of our HVAC equipment is now controlled by them. This also includes basic programming in the building management software language. We use Siemens Apogee Insight.

25 posted on 05/18/2009 8:55:37 PM PDT by this_ol_patriot (I saw manbearpig and all I got was this lousy tagline.)
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