Career prep for the non-math students amongst us…
OK
When I was in school, there were two kinds of people: math and non-math.
The math people walked around with slide rules in their pockets (yes, I am that old), and could do quadratic equations with their eyes closed.
Big deal.
Who could have predicted that this proclivity toward perpetual nerd-dom would be the single greatest skill for the 21st Century.
(Who could have predicted that Miss Chaffey’s touch typing class in 7th grade – a requirement, but I thought only for secretaries, would prove to be the most valuable skill I took away from Jr. High School?)
Well, as it turns out, coding, the Latin of the 21st Century, is hot hot hot.
That’s the skill everyone pays a lot for.
Coding and math.
Fine.
If you were a math major. Fine.
I was not.
I was what we used to call a ‘liberal arts major’.
You know… history, english lit, art, stuff like that.
What we might now deem a waste of time and money
Particulary at $65,000 a year.
As my father would say ‘what are you going to do with that?”
That would be my double major in history and studio art.
No one ever said that to an engineering major at MIT.
Did they…
No.
Now the NY Times is reporting that boot camps for coding have risen up on the West and East Coasts and they are incredibly popular.
Here, for a LOT of money, you can learn to write code.
Great.
I tried Coder’s Academy
Forget it.
But as the need for coding has arisen, so too has the need for content.
Lots of content.
Video content.
Millions of hours of video content to fill all those billions of screens around the world.
Let’s face it
You can’t fill all those screens with lines of code.
Now THAT is boring
Unless you are Bill Gates.
So what are the non-math majors amongst us to do to prepare for a future in which we are not starving to death and eating ramen noodles forever?
While the geeks are learning to string together code, you can learn to string together videos.
Much more interesting
Much more fun
We’ve been running our own video bootcamps for years but now it’s really taking off.
We’re starting new ones in London and NY to fill the need.
And maybe we should have one in your town.
you tell us.
Meanwhile, there is a very successful non-geek future for you
if you can’t do quadratic equations…
or don’t want to.
Call us.
copyright Michael Rosenblum 2014
2 Comments
Christopher Johnston March 17, 2015
After a decade in sales I went back to college at 37 and got a BS in marketing and followed it up with an MA in journalism. Now I’m a 42-year-old unemployed journalist with a mountain of student loa debt. I know how to make those videos but where I live (New Orleans) no one seems to be hiring.
Linda January 26, 2015
I was one of those non-math, art majors too. I guess I will continue with my non-geek future.