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Student developers were polled via 80 spring 2016 hackathons to asses how they feel about their career options. Some of the key finding were:
- 83% of students said they were looking for fulfilling careers, rather than simply for jobs.
- Students plan to stay an average of 2.9 years at their first full-time job.
- Students predict that they'll stay at later jobs for 5 years on average.
- Students expect to earn between $70–150K right out of school.
Details of the Devpost study can be found here.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Thursday May 19 2016, @05:55PM
On the one hand, the US has an income inequality problem. On the other. the US lifestyle is very costly. There's considerable social pressure and marketing trickery to spend, spend, spend. Marketing is all to happy to tell us there's an expensive solution for our every problem. A typical American house is a horrendous money pit. They seem designed to be 10 times more costly to build and own than necessary, what with things like unnecessarily intricate rooflines, purely for appearances, interior spaces with ledges 15 feet above the floor so one needs a ladder to reach it for cleaning (or hire a cleaning service, ka-ching!), and casually slapping the outdoor A/C unit any old place such as the south or west sides of the house where it is exposed to full sunlight in the afternoon, the peak demand times for A/C. And they have to be big, really big, bigger than the Joneses' house. They could be built to require far less heating, cooling, and maintenance, and without much changing the cost. A real simple change would be not making the house sprawl. Standards have improved over the years, but slowly. Lawn care is another racket. Then there's the car. It costs big time to own, drive, and refuel a car, but our suburban sprawl so is amazingly hostile to any other form of transportation that it is near impossible to live without them.
To pay for all this, may need more than one job. Then, because the adults are all too busy with full time jobs to mind the home and family, may have to pay for maid service, baby sitting or day care service, lawn care service, and so on. It's nuts.
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Thursday May 19 2016, @07:19PM
If we hadn't squandered the peace dividend on adventurism against Saddam's secular Iraq and stopped being World Police we'd have money for improvements at home.
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(Score: 2) by BK on Thursday May 19 2016, @08:50PM
The what? Whatever you think that is, it really is just an illusion and always was.
...but you HAVE heard of me.