On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda<j...@pobox.com> wrote: > 2009/6/12 Srijayanth Sridhar <srijaya...@gmail.com>: >> I don't doubt that its a global phenomenon, however, I am still curious >> about the reasons for its prevalence out here. > > I will add my little theory to this discussion. > > If you are from a middle class background with no appetite for > entrepreneurial risk, but want a better life than your parents did, there > are few professional career options. > > Doctor? Architect? Lawyer? They require dedicating a serious chunk of your > life and are one-way streets. But programmer... excuse me, software > developer? By gosh, a big company will make a software developer out of > anyone in just three months, plus you get to go abroad and settle down. If > it doesn't work, no big deal. You didn't invest five years and half your > parents' savings to realise that.
+1 to your theory. Around 1997, I used to work as a lab assistant at Aptech (A computer education chain.) in Mumbai. I've seen parents visit the Aptech centre with their supposedly good for nothing sons, learn about the course options, get swayed by the glorious future that the "career counsellors" promise them, and then say to their sons, "Since you don't seem to be good at anything else, at least do a computer course". -- Sriram _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
