You're on to something there. In my Sociology class (which I love teaching, thank gods for Sociology, it more than makes up for IT) I recently taught a segment about how working-class kids used to band together into anti-school subcultures where they learned to avoid work and deal with boredom and have a laugh whenever possible... because they were destined for zero-qualification factory jobs where the main survival skills would be dealing with boredom and having a laugh.
Then came computers, and robots, and globalisation, and there were no more zero-qualification factory jobs, and if you're disaffected with the whole academic thing today, knowing MS Office can be the only thing standing between you and oblivion (or call centre work; pretty much the same thing).
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Re: Sounds depressing !
Date: 2004-01-17 11:44 pm (UTC)You're on to something there. In my Sociology class (which I love teaching, thank gods for Sociology, it more than makes up for IT) I recently taught a segment about how working-class kids used to band together into anti-school subcultures where they learned to avoid work and deal with boredom and have a laugh whenever possible... because they were destined for zero-qualification factory jobs where the main survival skills would be dealing with boredom and having a laugh.
Then came computers, and robots, and globalisation, and there were no more zero-qualification factory jobs, and if you're disaffected with the whole academic thing today, knowing MS Office can be the only thing standing between you and oblivion (or call centre work; pretty much the same thing).