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Often times we hear news stories about how middle class jobs are slowly disappearing and making way for the tech revolution. Automated jobs are said to be leaving workers without a way to make ends meet as they suddenly won\u2019t be needed anymore.<\/p>\n
This, of course, is an extreme scenario and chances are that this won\u2019t happen and if it did, it wouldn\u2019t be sudden or over night.<\/p>\n
We believe that coding teaches you way more than just how to code. It teaches you how to think! It teaches you that there\u2019s always a solution to a problem and that collaboration for the sake of one end goal can result in extraordinary creations.<\/p>\n
With all that being said, we believe that learning to code will create more jobs instead of taking them away. An article on WIRED titled \u201cThe Next Big Blue-Collar Job is Coding\u201d<\/a> seems to agree.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I ask people to picture a coder, they usually imagine someone like Mark Zuckerberg: a hoodied college dropout who builds an app in a feverish 72-hour programming jag\u2014with the goal of getting insanely rich and, as they say, \u201cchanging the world.\u201d<\/p>\n It goes on to say that this isn\u2019t entirely accurate and that \u201cThe Valley employs only 8 percent of the nation\u2019s coders.\u201d<\/p>\n The reality is, with all the new technologies, courses, and ways to learn how to code (such as after school, in-person programs<\/a>), that coding is becoming more accessible for people to learn.<\/p>\n It\u2019s as simple as surrounding yourself with the right people. The environment around you has a much bigger impact than you think and surrounding yourself with people who have the same goal likely will accelerate the learning process.<\/p>\n