Digital Literacy For Dummies

Appendix

Making a Living in Digital Technology

In This Chapter

Discovering how digital technology has changed the workplace

Finding out what careers are available for a computer-literate person

Learning about information worker jobs

Learning about professional IT careers

Finding out about developer positions

Computers are everywhere, especially in the workplace. By becoming a digitally literate person, as this book has prepared you to be, you greatly increase your career marketability.

In this appendix, I tell you about some careers that you might find interesting, all of which require some sort of computer literacy background. Some of them are simple administrative jobs in which you work with Windows and Office; others are more specialized and require years of advanced education.

The Changing Workplace

Remember the days when people used to go into an office in the morning, stay there and work all day, and leave in the evening? That model still works for some people and some companies, ...