Non-Traditional Career Paths Into Technology
from the the-need-for-techies... dept
With the economy still going full blast, mostly focused on technology, and technology companies still desperate for workers, here are two articles about people taking a non-traditional path to becoming techies. First, a story about blue collar workers going back to training programs to becoming technically literate. Second is an article about students skipping college to go straight to work for dot coms. Taken together they show some of the demand for high tech workers.
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19 Year old, and still kickin
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...and older folks too!
I discovered that my previous experience in business served to erase any age bias that may exist high-tech (I'm not so convinced it *does* exist).
There are lots of
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