Why I Encourage My Daughter to Pursue Information Technology as a Career?
Goal: Do creative work with no constraints on time and place for global customers.
Today, I attended Courtney, my daughter’s graduation ceremony, where she received her second degree, a Bachelor of Computer Science with First Class Honours. After earning her first Bachelor's degree, she began working at a FAANG company and pursued this degree part-time, completing it in two years.
Before attending the ceremony, I recall the time recommending that she pursue “Information Technology” as her university degree over five years ago. I even used the image below to help.
Cristiano Ronaldo said, “Just do IT”. IT: Information Technology. She laughed.
Of course, CR7 is not the reason. My daughter did not have a particular interest then, so she took my advice, and it turned out quite fine.
My recommendation is not based solely on my years of experience as a software developer (in fact, many software professionals did not want their children to do IT), but rather, I foresaw an emerging new & better working style.
Do creative work with no constraints on time and place, for global customers.
