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Blick-Brotha · (#2 (**permalink**))

Sista Africa wrote:

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This is really doing my head in, seems that most young people of African descent nowadays are doing IT or Business Studies, now I'm not saying that we do not need people in our communities with these skills but we also need architects, doctors, engineers, nurses, teachers

so someone please explain this 'phenomenon' to me and how it serves our community (beyond the aspirations of the individual)

why not??

Everybody doesn't have the skillset to be a architect/doctor/nurse etc.. Should we who don't, or who simply don't enjoy those career paths and what they entail, follow them (and most likely fail along the way) just because?? confused2

We need more professionals full stop - don't try to knock people for whatever path they choose to get there. IT has developed rapidly, particularly over the past decade or so, so providing greater opportunites for careers and advancement there, so of course young people are going to jump in. Speaking for myself, I want to study and understand business so I can eventually escape from having to slave to earn a wage for somebody else. Being an architect/engineer/doctor etc. holds no interest for me. Simpleconfused3