Because, as I can attest as someone in their forties…
Boomers spent my youth telling me that I just needed a college degree, any college degree, and I would have a great job lined up for me almost anywhere.
Later, after many of us had graduated into a world that was absolutely fucking us we were told “Your degree was useless, why did you invest in something stupid that nobody uses like Early Childhood Education?” (something literally every child needs, adults with competent knowledge of early childhood education…)
Further, they would go on to say “Look at the tech industry, there’s good jobs there. Only STEM degrees matter, who gives a fuck about art or the human condition or literature. Who needs fucking “media literacy” and who needs to learn from the past to make sure we don’t make the same mistakes! LEARN TO CODE!”
“Learn to code” has been shoved down people’s throats by Boomers in positions of power for two decades now. After massive layoffs in the tech industries, it has become an even bigger joke than it was, because what are all those coders without jobs supposed to do? Learn to code? Pretty sure they already did that step.
Boomers: He just needs to learn to code!
Why is this a boomer thing?
Because, as I can attest as someone in their forties…
Boomers spent my youth telling me that I just needed a college degree, any college degree, and I would have a great job lined up for me almost anywhere.
Later, after many of us had graduated into a world that was absolutely fucking us we were told “Your degree was useless, why did you invest in something stupid that nobody uses like Early Childhood Education?” (something literally every child needs, adults with competent knowledge of early childhood education…)
Further, they would go on to say “Look at the tech industry, there’s good jobs there. Only STEM degrees matter, who gives a fuck about art or the human condition or literature. Who needs fucking “media literacy” and who needs to learn from the past to make sure we don’t make the same mistakes! LEARN TO CODE!”
“Learn to code” has been shoved down people’s throats by Boomers in positions of power for two decades now. After massive layoffs in the tech industries, it has become an even bigger joke than it was, because what are all those coders without jobs supposed to do? Learn to code? Pretty sure they already did that step.