Comments on: Wall Street’s collapse may be IT program’s gain http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/09/26/wall-streets-collapse-may-be-it-programs-gain/ EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:39:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Harry Chen http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/09/26/wall-streets-collapse-may-be-it-programs-gain/comment-page-1/#comment-26707 Harry Chen Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:03:33 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1633#comment-26707 I don't like the idea suggesting a career in computer science is an alternative to which on the Wall Street. Many other professions pay better than the Wall Street (e.g., brain surgeons and lawyers). People should never work for better pay (or get rich). People should enter a career that they like and enjoy. Money is only a means to an end, not the sole purpose of life. Personally, I discourage students from entering computer science just because IT jobs pay better. IT jobs usually come with significant mental stress. Students who are unsuited for computer science entering the field will likely turn out to be "bad" developers and engineers. Not only they wasted company resources, but also their own life. I don’t like the idea suggesting a career in computer science is an alternative to which on the Wall Street. Many other professions pay better than the Wall Street (e.g., brain surgeons and lawyers). People should never work for better pay (or get rich). People should enter a career that they like and enjoy. Money is only a means to an end, not the sole purpose of life.

Personally, I discourage students from entering computer science just because IT jobs pay better. IT jobs usually come with significant mental stress. Students who are unsuited for computer science entering the field will likely turn out to be “bad” developers and engineers. Not only they wasted company resources, but also their own life.

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