Dave's Blog

Friday, September 13, 2002 10:06:26 PM

Let's see ... summer is nearly over, academic schools are back in 
session, and SFSU has closed the Unix/C/C++ program.  The stock 
market is "moving sideways," which is a signal for all the brokers to 
go fishing.  With a 6% unemployment rate one might ask, "What is the 
job market looking like these days?"  What are the 94% of the 
workforce that are employed actually doing out there?  

I've received some feedback recently from alumni who have found new  
jobs.  The artist still does art, but at a huge computerized 
animation company.  The baker bakes, and is thinking of setting up an 
internet cafe somewhere outside the metropolitan areas.  The teacher 
teaches, and he's pioneering the use of web sites in high school 
curricula.  The tech writer writes, and does very well with the 
knowledge he picked up in our program.  I have a system 
administration contract at a bank -- surprise, surprise.  So it looks 
like the things we did in the past are the keys to our incremental 
growth in the future.  Perhaps we're not going through revolutionary 
career changes so much as evolutionary ones.  The man who has ten 
income streams, not jobs, probably cultivated each of them in turn, 
and continues to cultivate new ones while he nurtures the old ones.  

Life is not a rat race, it's a farm.  Perhaps we should all be 
out fishing with the stock brokers.  

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