When I started in IT consulting in the 1990s, my boss said “on the first six months of this job, all you need to be able to do is breathe and carry a tool bag”. One of our best network engineers had been a porter at a bank where my firm did work, and the best guy I worked with was a former religious studies major from Swarthmore. The best guy *he* had ever worked with was an orthodox guy who had gotten his start at a 47th street camera store. By the time I left we were hiring people with CS degrees, and 10 years later STEM BA was de rigeur. Mobility pipeline had silted up.
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