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I would advise any somewhat ambitious 17 year old to avoid tech and get into healthcare if they can stomach human interactions and bodily fluids. Sure, it is not all sunshine and rainbows, but there will still be plenty of work helping people who are ill or elderly. Even in the worst-case economic scenario, medicine will be a more socially rewarding and stable life path.

by jgraham10 hours ago|

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This seems like a much more interesting question to me.

Telling other people's children what to do is easy and basically doesn't have any downside to being wrong. With your own children things are a bit different.

So: what are people here with school age children telling their own kids about the future? If their kids ask, what kind of careers would they encourage them to pursue, assuming they have the skills and interest?

When I was last in the Bay Area, maybe about a decade ago the bookshops were full of titles like "Python for Preschoolers" (I exaggerate, but only slightly). Clearly at the time a lot of people working in tech thought that cultivating an interest in programming was going to be the path to being a successful (by some metric) adult. Is that still the case?

by greenowl6 hours ago|

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We've wronged an entire generation by pushing "learn to code".

by Der_Einzige9 hours ago|

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The real reason to recommend this is that they have an excellent chance of avoiding the "nerd-to-incel" pipeline that tech all-but-guarantees for its best nerds. Post GenAI boom, the social cost of working in tech combined with the coming collapse in high paying jobs, means that unironically coders should be learning a bit about coal mines.

In this regard, Healthcare is a polar opposite. It's pretty hard as a male nurse to not "accidentally" become a home wrecker.