Technology making it harder to earn degree and/or keep a job

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03 Jan 2015, 11:04 pm

Do you find computers, and technology designed to make things business and jobs more efficient and productive to be more of a challenge for you in regards to earning a degree and being successful in the work place. Personally I find for me, it makes it more challenging. For example, in school, I find many courses such as math, science, and physics now require doing assignments on the computer or learning technology as an addition to the curriculum. I find many jobs now require you to learn a program in order to do your job and sometimes learning the program can be complicated. When I took my electrical engineering degree, I found not only you had to learn calculous and circuits, you also now have to learn how to program, use computer programs, and other technology that's difficult to learn designed to make things easier in addition to the material the previous generation only had to learn before computers came out. Do you find this to be the case for you too?

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04 Jan 2015, 8:55 am

my nieces are going to college learning to design websites. They have to learn about different computer programs, how you design on each and every one.

Years ago, I had a job filing, typing, paperworks, that kind of things. The new boss left, and we got a new boss who decided to instal a new program in the computer that you do the filing on the computer. It was complicated for me and confusing. I got fired after a year on the job.

I'm an excellent typist, but not they have a new program that types into the computer, and typing jobs are extremely hard to find.

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04 Jan 2015, 9:48 am

They had computer requirements in college--I graduated 30 years ago!

Fortunately, I'm very good a solving puzzles--a software issue is just another puzzle to be solved!

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04 Jan 2015, 10:52 am

I might add that I don't see extreme proficiency in using a particular program to be useful in the long term--as programs come and go.

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04 Jan 2015, 11:11 am

Keeping up with technology is one of the main reasons why I have kept my job.

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04 Jan 2015, 1:28 pm

I feel that technology should be kept out of the workplace with the exception of the job sites of emergency workers.

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04 Jan 2015, 1:40 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:

I feel that technology should be kept out of the workplace with the exception of the job sites of emergency workers.

None at all? Nothing to write with or record information? No tools to make nifty widgets? You mean we would go to work--and just talk??

Sounds like an Aspie's Nightmare!

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05 Jan 2015, 11:15 am

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05 Jan 2015, 12:25 pm

If it wasn't for technology I wouldn't have a job.

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