On 12/12/2011 7:32 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
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...
There aren't that many places offering sysadmin focused courses, which
seems a little odd in some regards. We're in such a diverse field it
strikes me as ideal for a Degree, in the last few days alone I've been
juggling databases, python, networks, storage and security related
tasks. There really isn't much path into the field through standard
academic pursuits. The main thing we get are comp-sci grads coming in
with a lot of theory and little practical skills.
Paul
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