[kamaal]

>>But there're several other fields where experience and knowledge are a lot harder to gain

Factor in internet that statement isn't true anymore. The amount of knowledge on the net today is mind boggling. Its scary to imagine how much information has become cheap and easy to access these days. And no one knows where this is all heading.

The jobs that require knowledge and experience hard to gain are already very few and shrinking with every coming day.

>>work isn't about getting shit done as fast as possible, but about getting something done right.

Wait until a 20 year old shows how it can be done fast and right.

[navait]

I temporarily worked in safety-critical software development. There's a lot of tools in that domain that simply aren't as googlable(read: expensive) and cannot be learned online.

Often, in these sort of situations, the field isn't even that visible. I certainly didn't know how extensive it was until I worked in it.

>>Wait until a 20 year old shows how it can be done fast and right.

I will applaud the 20 year old who somehow manages to disrupt the safe software industry, but I doubt it will ever happen.

[wongarsu]

The internet makes information easily available, but it doesn't always provide context. For example Hadoop is great for big data, but I trust the fourty-something year old more than the twenty-something year old to know when to ignore the current trend product and use stream processing instead.

And I'm saying that as a twenty-something.

[smarks]

(Insert quip about queuing theory and unbounded wait times.)