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As someone who is a passion-related IT person, I often meet a lot of IT people who surprise me with their fixation on making money. Generally it is a hard time to be young anywhere in the world with unemployment and underemployment rates being high among young people from the US to China.

In this situation the problem is more likely to be over specialization. If botany is a topic that you could somehow pick-up after university with little ease then it would be something more people would do. If there is a programming language that has too few people who know it, why not replace it with a code more easy to pick up by other programmers?




> If botany is a topic that you could somehow pick-up after university with little ease then it would be something more people would do

You can, but much like anything else most of the work in botany that pays well requires an accredited qualification in the form of a degree.


> I often meet a lot of IT people who surprise me with their fixation on making money.

I think it’s the other way around. Ever since the late 1990’s IT boom, a lot of money-hungry people have flocked to IT.


I think we are saying the same thing here. The work ethic is based on different bases for both - you would never be needlessly harming your health if you are passion driven for example.




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