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Donghyeok Yun
4,514 PointsAm I being too worried?
Hello, I'm just regular middle school student who is very interested getting a job related to programming. I mean they get respect and age doesn't matter in the field and if you have skill you could possibly get hired even if you are a pre-teen, and you get paid a lot. (It's a short reasons why I want to be programmer). Okay enough of that. My real problem is that I am worried about my future. Because everyone now knows that programming going to be amazing and important skill to learn. Everyone going to learn about it and that means it's going to too competitive to get a proper programming related job and have stable job. I mean seriously my dad already told me that programming is going to very important in future so I started learning it. But, after about 8 months the 'hour of code' and programming became a trend education to learn. After I kind of became upset about it, I mean I chose programming because It wasn't competitive job to get compared to others. But, now everyone knows I bit freaked out and I am worried about my future and getting a stable job after graduating from university.
john larson
16,594 PointsI guess I could add that if schools are implementing "an hour of programming", it's likely a forced initiative and therefore IT will likely fail. Because forcing people to do things is not motivation, it's coercion. That, is a failure of humanity.
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 PointsEveryone learns Math in school... and how many become mathematicians?
Everyone learns Science in school... and how many become scientists?
So, now everyone is now also learning coding... how many will become coders?
john larson
16,594 PointsJason, you said it far better that me, and more concisely! kudos.
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Joseph Dunleavy
4,491 PointsDon't worry for a second. Keep with it. Programming and programming jobs are not going anywhere.
john larson
16,594 PointsJospeph, the field will undoubtedly change. As more people enter a field, the amount of money that people will make at it will go down. Supply and demand. It probably won't happen tomorrow, but it will happen. Although some fields as they approach saturation, make it harder and harder to enter that field. Keeping the wage up and artificially keeping demand high. I personally hope that doesn't happen with programming, but it could.
john larson
16,594 Pointsjohn larson
16,594 PointsIt's pretty hard to learn and a lot of people will give up. There are many more jobs than there are people to fill them. Besides, if you love programming, learn it. The future holds no guarantees for anybody. We all just do the best we can. Programming as we know it could become obsolete. Career fields have become obsolete in the past. You learn something new and move on.