This document lists 10 reasons to discourage students from pursuing technology careers. Reason #1 is that students will move out of their parents' house once they get a well-paying job. Reason #2 is that technology has nothing to do with what people care about. Reason #3 is that a decent wage doesn't teach kids how to manage money.

1. The Top Ten Reasons You Should
Discourage Students From Pursuing
Technology Related Careers

2. No. 10 - The Dot.Com Bust

3. No. 9 – The Rate of Change Will
Require Them to Be Life-Long Learners

4. No. 8 – Our Youth Have Limited
Interest in Working in a Sector that ...
• Consistently has the top places to work in Canada
• Gives you a better than average shot at becoming
your own boss
• Provides for flexible work weeks
• Delivers substantially better than average benefits
• Can be done from almost any-where
• Creates the occasional millionare

5. No. 7 – You Should Be Suspicious
When Sectors Grow in Recessions
150%
140%
Changes in Sector GDP 2001 – 2010
(StatsCan - Chained 2002 $)
130%
120%
110%
100%
90%
80%
70%
Crop and animal production Forestry and logging Manufacturing Transportation and warehousing ICT
60%
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

6. No. 6 – Why Work in Tech When
There is Lots of Work in Retail?
2010 – New Brunswick GDP By Sector ($B)
Mining and oil and gas extraction [21]
Accommodation and food services [72]
Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services [56]
Other services (except public administration) [81]
Professional, scientific and technical services [54]
Utilities [22]
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting [11]
Information and communication technologies (ICT)
Wholesale trade [41]
Transportation and warehousing [48-49]
Construction [23]
Retail trade [44-45]
Health care and social assistance [62]
Manufacturing [31-33]
Finance and insurance, real estate and renting and leasing 24
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01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 00110000 01110011 (Tech Jobs Are Only About 1s and 0s)
Social HUB Architect
Art Director Productivity Manager
Cartographic Engineer
Customer Success Manager
Sound Designer
Multimedia Specialist
Business Intelligence Analyst
Robotics Engineer
Technical Writer
Campaign Analyst
2D & 3D Animator
Checkout - http://careermash.ca/careers

8. No. 4 - There Are No
Tech Jobs in New Brunswick
Sales
Information Technology (ICT)
Customer Service/Contact Centre
Engineering/Eng Technologist
Health Care
Marketing
Logistics and Distribution
Operations/Manufacturing
Trades
Retail
Jan 7 2013
Accounting/Financial
Admin/Support
Jan 9 2012
Nursing
Insurance
Education
Food & Beverage
Financial Services
Social Sciences
Human Resources
Tourism
Real Estate
Oil & Gas
Agriculture & Forestry
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160
No. of Positions Posted on Career Beacon in Previous 2 Months

9. No. 3 – A Decent Wage Doesn’t
Teach Kids How to Manage Money
Figure 3: Average Weekly Wage Premium (2010)
Computer systems design and related services industry
versus overall industry average
70% 65% 66%
63%
59% 61%
60% 55% 56%
50%
40%
34% 35%
30% 28%
20%
BC PE NL MB NB CAN NS ON QC AB
Source: Statistics Canada. Table 281-0026.

10. No. 2 – Technology Has Nothing
To Do With What People Care About
2012 Access to Learning Award: The Dominican Republic's
West Africa's technological revolution driven by
Community Technology Centers (CTCs)
mobile phones
Whether it's tracking locusts or Republic, women are often denied access to
In the Dominican government
spending, west Africa's hi-tech firms are findingopportunities available to men.
the educational and employment new
solutions to socialthat reason, many resort to Sept 24th
For problems - Globe and Mail prostitution, while many more
simply resign Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Study Finds
themselves to making due on the limited income
“Smart Grid” could cut US carbon emissions by 58%
brought in by their husbands or the small stipend provided by
- theEnergycollective, May 2011
the government.
The goal (of the CTCs)needensure that allto put it all together and
“We just is to smart grids people—particularly
those who are the poorest, mostthe lights on‟.”
effectively „keep marginalized members of
society—are able to benefit from the Paper ontools that are Energy
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- study from the Inter-American
Records provided by a Kenyan cell phone privileged few.
often only available toBank spent 15 months examining
Development a
company helped researchers identify travel
routes between population centers, OLPC computers in 319 Peruvian
the use of offering a
year’s worth of data on 15 million anonymous
schools that received the notebooks, and found ...
cell phone users’ movements around Kenya.
The used the data to create a map that shows the OLPC program advanced
... that being part of
how malaria is most likely to move between cognitive skills were five to six
verbal fluency and
different regions in Kenya.
months ahead of students outside the program.

11. No. 1 – As Soon As They Get A
Well Paying Job That Helps Enable
What They Have A Passion For ...
They’ll Move
Out of the House!