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07 Jun 08
Akihiko KomadaWhile struggling to find my bearings in my late teens and 20s, I seriously contemplated switching out of a technical career altogether until I finally found myself in my early 30s. Looking back, I am grateful that I hung in there, and have ended up having a fulfilling, stimulating and varied technical career.
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02 Jun 08
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At the other end of the spectrum, - the one where I finally landed - you have engineers, especially those engineers working on complex, marketplace oriented systems, like the ones I have been involved in over the last thirty years. The skills required for such technical careers are generally quite broad. You have to be good at technology, but also at understanding markets, organizations, people and management. Rather than being a deep expert in any one component of the problem, you have to be good at holistic thinking, where the whole is more than the sum of its parts. You have to be comfortable working on ill defined problems, and on highly complex, integrated systems whose properties will tend to be unpredictable or emergent.
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I am afraid that this is particular problem with blacks, Hispanics and other minorities that are under-represented in technical careers, perhaps because the students and their families don't have the role models that would give them a more complete view of what technical careers are really like and the many choices available to them.
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health care, supply chains, media and entertainment, retail, finance and so on.
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