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Originally Posted by MadMax
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Specific career paths are the old way of thinking IMO. It's outdated.
What education should be doing is setting a foundation, not a specific career.
Say you want to get into a journalism career. Those sorts of schools are going to teach you all about journalism. What happpens when you go and get a job in Journalism? They're going untrain you, and build your journalism skills up themselves.
What aren't they going to do? Bother with the shit you should know already. Teach you about the world. Geography, history, interpersonal communication, how to write a fucking business orientated email/letter, which is sorely missing in the business world today.
The worst thing you could do for a journalism career is take a journalism based course. Exactly the same for IT. Take an IT course and it'll teach you all about RAM and CPU's, but it won't give you those basic business skills, basic marketing, negotiation, reporting and writing skills, etc etc.
What happens when they want to get out of IT? They're fucked, because that's all they know, and they don't have that foundation to pivot on, to go try something else.
Anyway, people get into IT because they want to manage computers. People get out of it when they realize that 99% of IT is managing people.