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Kids grow up, if you're lucky they eventually get a job and settle down, looking very much like their parents did at a similar age. By the way, they dislike it when you point this out. Industries grow up too: they go through exciting periods of rapid growth and innovation, but eventually settle down and start looking like other industries in many regards. IT is certainly an industry that has gone through exciting growth and transformation over the last few decades. But is IT growing up and settling down? And -- if so -- is this just a temporary plateau before the next exciting period? Given that most of my readers have invested their entire careers in IT, it's a relevant topic. What Brought This On It's not hard to figure out that I'm not exactly a young turk anymore. My first paying IT job was 40 years ago when I was a mere 13 years old -- during the summer, I got paid to write simple BASIC routines on a teletype punch using a 300 baud modem. It was better than a paper route or mowing lawns. As such, I've had a ringside seat on how many aspects of... |
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