Continuing my previous rant…

I ranted below about people who use tech support as their live manual.
I just read a forum post by a young man who decided to go into a computing technology engineering curriculum at a local trade school — and found out that it required MATH. He hates math. Friends of his in the industry say that he won’t need anything but addition and subtraction in any job he gets.
Sounds like he and his friends are perfect examples of what I was ranting about.
Regardless of what his friends say, if he hates math, what on earth is he doing in computers? Problem solving is problem solving, regardless of whether it’s math or “what’s wrong with the network?” Honestly, if he doesn’t think he’ll have to deal with binary and octal and hexidecimal numbers (and the math involved in handling them) in computing technology, he’s either been poorly advised or he didn’t read up on the field before he jumped into taking classes.
I deal with “computing engineers” nearly every day who boast degrees and certifications I never bothered with (I’m a liberal arts major myself), who are running serious, mission-critical systems at major corporate, government, and military installations all over the world…and they haven’t a clue how to solve problems on their own. That’s why I pull down the big bucks as a largely-self-taught software product engineer — I know how to solve their problems.
My advice is this: If you hate math, find another career track. Because you’ll never be happy in computing otherwise.