On 12/12/11 20:55, Mark McCullough wrote:
> I find that tech employees are neither particularly loved nor
> vilified. It's seen by the "random person on the street" I speak
> with as a respectable profession. Now, my normal way of
> explaining my job is "I keep the computers you use to pay your $x
> bill safe enough to use your credit card." That puts it in terms
> that they can understand, and the normal reaction from those who
> have actually gone so far as to ask what I do is far from
> disinterest. Yes, their eyes glaze over if I go into any more
> detail, but my eyes glaze over when I talk with an environmental
> engineer about what he does.
It really isn't at our level that these perceived issues are at.
Damion was talking about teens. Middle/High school the "cool"
kids were working on cars and/or doing sports. The "geeks" and
"outcasts" would be running D&D or messing with computers.
To get the diversity, you need the applicant pool to be diverse.
That does not start at college graduation. It needs to be cool
at the middle/high school levels.
What to do about this, is left as an exercise for the reader...
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-MCP
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