You People Are...Going To Have Problems

[OpenRoot]

I'm a bartender and always encourage my younger relatives to learn to
Learn to shake a cocktail. I've neer had an issue finding a job when I've needed one and its a pretty easy skill to move around with. Its scary how many of our staff have nearly useless BAs. A few even have masters degrees but they're still waiting tables or bartending because they can't find jobs in their fields and/or the money in the restaurant is better. It almost makes me glad I dropped out of college the first time...at least I'm not buried in student debt and still stuck behind a bar.

[scorched]

All I can ever do is chuckle these days, with I get resumes from new graduates of college in the IT and Computer Sci fields, who think they instantly deserve a $100K for having that piece of paper.
And then to find that most curriculum's, really didn't teach them anything immediately applicable, and if I hired them, I would have to send them to more training.
Saw other hiring managers take the risk, and when I walk by the cubes, all I see is facebook, twitter, and other social media sites on their screens. They are also dumbfounded when the other managers attempt to tell them productivity actually requires them to develop code or IT solutions.

And from earlier posts, sales and marketing are always required. However, having been in technology for a really long time now, marketing is just a necessary evil. DEC computers was one of the greatest companies ever, with the worst marketing, Microsoft is opposite, great marketing and mediocre products. Always funny, but if you follow Gartner's hype cycle, its pretty easy to pick out the marketing run tech companies vs the engineering based ones.