Comment on Tech jobs are now white collar trades that need apprentices
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 year agoToken ring networks is what they spent quite a bit of time teaching us about, in 2016. Perhaps fair enough to mention it as a thing that existed but they taught this stuff to us like it was current.
That’s the biggest problem with learning tech from a college: developing, vetting, publishing, and adopting curriculum all take a good chunk of time. More time than it takes for new tech to arise.
It’s not hard to see going to trainings/expos/etc. on new/current/upcoming tech while working at a business is going to be a lot more useful than learning 5-20 year old tech in college.
This is exactly why I dropped out of college for computer science when I got my first IT job. 30 years later and I haven’t regretted it yet.
ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I had a similar experience where we had an entire class for Novell Directory Services. The reason our teacher gave for keeping the class in the curriculum? We MAY run into it in the workforce.
dditty@lemm.ee 1 year ago
My org literally still uses Novell in conjunction with AD
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m so sorry.