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A new study links doing one's homework, being interested and behaving responsibly in high school to better academic and career success as many as 50 years later. This effect, reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, holds true even after accounting for parental income, IQ and other factors known to influence achievement, researchers report.
The study analyzed decades of data collected by the American Institutes for Research beginning in 1960 and continuing to the present. The original data set included more than 370,000 students. High school participants were originally tested on academic, cognitive and behavioral characteristics in 1960 and also responded to follow-up surveys in later years. The new analysis looked at the initial student tests and their responses 11 years and 50 years later.
Of the 1,952 participants randomly selected from those who responded to surveys 50 years later, "those who showed more interest in high school and had higher writing skills reported earning higher incomes," said Spengler, who led the study. "They also tended to have higher occupational prestige than their peers when they showed responsible behaviors as a student." This was in addition to the gains associated with IQ, family income and personality traits such as conscientiousness, she said.
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-links-responsible-behavior-high-school.html
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Behavior in high school predicts income and occupational success later in life
American Psychological Association
[Source]: University of Illinois
The paper "How you behave in school predicts life success above and beyond family background, broad traits, and cognitive ability" is available online and from the U. of I. News Bureau. DOI
Has your experience been as described ??
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01 2018, @05:30AM (3 children)
I got laid off my programming job 1 week ago (plus 2 weeks advance "notice" before that), and I just got a new job at a raise for close to $150,000.
This seems like I am posting to rub salt in the wound, but I promise I am not. I put it out there as proof that software jobs really are out there, but you do have to:
1) Live in an area where there is a sizable software or IT services industry
2) Have in-demand (current, but not necessarily cutting edge) skills
3) Be able to verbally explain the value you bring as an employee
4) Have an employment record that shows strong (and ideally increasing) responsibility
You can turn it around and join the programming world, but only if you can give employers what they are looking for.
And you have to be willing to live where the jobs are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01 2018, @07:02AM (2 children)
Have fun with your insanely expensive cost of living, or at least in most cases. In a world where it's possible to work remotely, this is fucking inexcusable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 01 2018, @12:49PM (1 child)
It's a different set of tradeoffs, remote versus onsite.
Remote work tends to be a career dead end. If you are OK with never advancing beyond programmer individual contributor, this may be fine.
Customer interaction is pretty hard to do remotely as a general rule too. On the plus side, if you enjoy living off the beaten path, you can as a remote worker. You just need internet access.
On the minus side, if your work can be done remotely, then it can be done by anyone in the world that speaks your boss's language. You are competing with the entire world, and this tends to lower your wage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04 2018, @01:03PM
The problem is that, once you do the math, you'll often find that it's not worth living in places like Silicone Valley at all, even if the job appears to pay an insane amount.
Maybe you're not very good at your job then. Of course, most employees are bad at telling if someone is good at their job, so they'd probably happily replace a good employee with some random fool in India.