This made me laugh. I got this campaign postcard in the mail from my city councilor friend, Mary-Ann. It says she’s “bringing the jobs of tomorrow to Raleigh today.”
Well, not quite. While Mary-Ann has certainly worked hard to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in Raleigh, these jobs won’t be “computer programmer” jobs because that job title fell out of favor about two decades ago. Nowadays the wizards who do this work are called “software developers” or, even more commonly, “software engineers.” And good luck trying to find even these titles in a newspaper’s help wanted section, because no one puts job listings in newspapers anymore. Geeks go to LinkedIn, Monster.com, CareerBuilder, Indeed, or Craigslist to find jobs now.
Aside from these quibbles, though, I do applaud Mary-Ann for her work in helping increase the geek population in Raleigh. Geeks make everything better!