> Careers that have higher status and entry requirements have the advantage that they don't cannabalize their middle-age job prospects like CS does.
Do you have any studies or evidence to back that assertion up? If the number of people working in a field doubles every five years there will then at 20 years with perfect retention only 7.5% of the population of workers will have 20 years experience and half will have less than five.
High status doesn’t really help that much if the economics and funding environment are awful. Professional actors are not looked down on by many and even fewer look down on biology or chemistry professors but trying to get into those careers is a poor choice unless your parents can support you if it doesn’t work out. Vicious competition for a small number of coveted spots leaves to many people spending years of their lives only to drop out of a tournament they lost, with precious little to show for it.
Do you have any studies or evidence to back that assertion up? If the number of people working in a field doubles every five years there will then at 20 years with perfect retention only 7.5% of the population of workers will have 20 years experience and half will have less than five.
High status doesn’t really help that much if the economics and funding environment are awful. Professional actors are not looked down on by many and even fewer look down on biology or chemistry professors but trying to get into those careers is a poor choice unless your parents can support you if it doesn’t work out. Vicious competition for a small number of coveted spots leaves to many people spending years of their lives only to drop out of a tournament they lost, with precious little to show for it.