{"id":219,"date":"2007-10-24T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2007-10-24T08:30:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T15:30:01","slug":"20071024-gen-y-tech-savvy-but-not-interested-in-a-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/24\/20071024-gen-y-tech-savvy-but-not-interested-in-a-career\/","title":{"rendered":"2007\/10\/24 Gen Y Tech Savvy, But Not Interested in a Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is this all about?: article from slashdot.org:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\" id=\"art3\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"generaltitle\">\n<p class=\"title\">\n<h3> \t\t\t <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/07\/10\/24\/143247.shtml\">Gen Y Tech Savvy, But Not Interested in a Career<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"details\">  \t \t<strong>Posted by \t \t<a href=\"http:\/\/cmdrtaco.net\/\">CmdrTaco<\/a>  \ton Wednesday October 24, @10:41AM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>from the <strong>why-when-i-was-that-age<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\n<p class=\"topic\"> \t\t \t\t \t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=95\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/images.slashdot.org\/topics\/topicinternet.gif\" alt=\"The Internet\" title=\"The Internet\" height=\"73\" width=\"70\" \/> \t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\"> \t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/carpenter\" rel=\"nofollow\">jcatcw<\/a> writes <em>&#8220;Young people aren&#8217;t choosing computer science majors because they take technology for granted \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9043339\">it&#8217;s something to use not something to make a career.<\/a> &#8220;By and large, this generation is very fluent with technology and with a networked world,&#8221; according to James Ware, executive producer at The Work Design Collaborative LLC, a Berkeley, Calif., consortium exploring workplace values and the future of the workforce. That future may be in managing technology, which requires skills today&#8217;s college students don&#8217;t have: writing, critical thinking, hard work and just plain showing up. One of their primary concerns is a flexible schedule and healthy work\/life balance.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is this all about?: article from slashdot.org: Gen Y Tech Savvy, But Not Interested in a Career Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 24, @10:41AM from the why-when-i-was-that-age dept. jcatcw writes &#8220;Young people aren&#8217;t choosing computer science majors because they take technology for granted \u2014 it&#8217;s something to use not something to make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}