The Computer Programmers’ $150/hour Racket Is Over
Kids Will No Longer Leave High School or College Making More Than Their Parents
Where do I begin? There are so many aspects of this story to tell. For now, a quick personal history.
My mother told me to take a typing class when I entered high school in 1976. She said, “if you can type you can always make money.” Thanks Mom! She was right. I earned money typing papers in college and later picked up well-paying temp jobs in NYC.
In the mid 1980s word processors lead to most executives losing their secretaries. It was just as well, women were sick of typing.
By the late 1980s those word processors became all-around computers, doing spreadsheets, databases and desktop publishing. I transitioned from typing to programming, fortunate to have left college just as computers began to reshape the world.
My Plan ‘A’ in high school was to become a Great American Novelist. Today I would have ended up an Uber driver.
Fast forward to 2010. I told my hard-charging middle-child artsy daughter (all three of them are artsy) to learn computer security. That way she could spend most of her time in an office, drawing.
