Inbox: “Would you advise a smart youngster to go into tech even if their passion were in X?” Yes, for most Xes? Many people in tech successfully pursue passions which are not directly tech; a stable remunerative career is a good platform for doing lots of things.
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I will also extend this argument to anything which involves heavy technical skill but which does not come with attractive offers. This means you, video game industry. Go work for AppAmaGooBookSoft, get off at 5, and play video games as much as you want with the $300k extra.
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LOL. That's what I did. In the sense that I'm an IT Pro with a degree from 2001 whose largely used his IT skills to pursue his passions of reading and thinking
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If you’re not sure, do an internship or two in X. Nothing’s worse than spending $X00,000 on a graduate degree in X only to realize you hate the jobs it qualifies you for, he says from personal experience
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Also, tech will eventually eat X, so then you'll get to do both.
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