{"id":764,"date":"2006-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/06\/23\/702\/"},"modified":"2006-06-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T22:00:00","slug":"702","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/06\/23\/702\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech careers are on the wrong track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Yager at InfoWorld &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/06\/06\/21\/79397_26OPcurve_1.html\" title=\"Tech careers are on the wrong track | InfoWorld | Column | 2006-06-21 | By Tom Yager\">Tech careers are on the wrong track<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;IT careers require an understanding that the purpose of commercial computer systems is to serve people. Not to serve one another, not to serve database rows or HTTP packets, but to make people glad they\u2019re using their computers instead of grappling with the latest work-around.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] I\u2019m leaning toward the notion that American companies lowered their standards to ensure that they had no irreplaceable staff. A vital IT field is fueled by people you can\u2019t afford to lose and workers competing to achieve that status.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Yager at InfoWorld &#8211; Tech careers are on the wrong track: &#8222;IT careers require an understanding that the purpose of commercial computer systems is to serve people. Not to serve one another, not to serve database rows or HTTP packets, but to make people glad they\u2019re using their computers instead of grappling with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}