Computer Careers for Not Yet Techies

Only if you want to earn 70% more money than average, get 6.8% annual pay increases and lifetime employment security. That what computer careers can do for you. Not to mention, with luck, to receive a small fortune in stock options. Lately, I must admit, the employment security from computer careers no longer looks so secure..

The words "geek" and "nerd" started out as genuinely felt insults, remember. No matter how humorously these words are now used in the media, many now-successful geeks and nerds with computer careers who spent their dateless teenage years being jeered by the in-crowd have not forgotten.

Revenge is sweet.

If you are checking out computer careers, you must be dissatisfied with your current place in life.

Computer careers are far more popular now than ever before. Of course that's partly because so many more people have their own PCs at home and are therefore much more comfortable with the idea of working with them.

This is especially true of children, who are growing up taking PCs for granted the way I took TV for granted, never guessing how much of a new high tech toy and marvel it was to my mother and grandfather. So children do not put the same stigma on working computer careers as previous generations.

Also, most people work with computers as part of their daily jobs. Even McDonalds cooks have to use a computer to keep track of their job hours and the number of hamburgers to make. Some people overestimate the level of their knowledge. Just because they can know how to re-size Windows screens and write a letter in MS Word doesn't make them computer experts. Some of them still think it'd be easy for them to get started in computer careers.

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