Ready Your Kids for Change

InigoMontoya
Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:12:55 +0000

@2sk211 Same here. The Internet was not out there when I studied CS in college - yet somehow I’ve ended up with my latest career incarnation focusing on managing folks who work on content management systems. Every couple of years my job has changed significantly and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Constant learning and reinvention keeps me young. Well, also working around so many 25-year olds!

I think the intent of the “it doesn’t matter what you do in college” was more around how what school you attend and what you choose for a major does not lock you into one and only one possible future. Sure, if you screw around in college it will hurt you, potentially long-term, but if you work hard and have drive, you can end up going in any number of career directions that may or may not be directly correlated to your alma mater or your major.