STEM attractiveness?
Given the recent employment insecurity in the tech sector and the ongoing de-skilling and off-shoring of tech roles generally and those role traditionally relatively stable, does anyone really wonder why the whole industry is not attracting la crème (nor le lait) from all the potential candidates, let alone from the more practical forward looking female component?
I would guess the attractiveness would order E > S > T with M either top or bottom (⊤,⊥;) depending on the individual.
Accountancy might be as dry as a bone* but is relatively secure employment - in prosperity there are plenty of beans to count, in recession there are plenty of debts to chase and to be accounted for - which will put meat if not on the driest of bones at least on the table.
The idea of a chartered (certifified) AI accountant takes creative accounting to a whole new and hideous level.
Given the human corporate excesses of the noughties put the exploits of the Python's The Crimson Permanant Assurance☆ to shame, what new hell does AI assisted accountancy hold?
For the future minded young the contemporary technology and its current trajectory isn't exactly a force for good - AI and Crypto bros are really going well above and beyond the call of duty in doing their bit to cook the planet.
* or hereabouts, as a dead dingo's dong.
☆ See part1 part2
Biting the hand that feeds IT
