develop a story to get following end........................ I realise that study is important to become good career
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I spent a semester learning about Spanish chivalric literature, wrote a dissertation about surrealist images, fell in love with the poetry of Federico García Lorca and, in short, wasted four years of my life. My degree in French and Spanish – despite being a decent grade from a good university – is not worth the paper it's written on.
At school, I was in the top set for maths. My teachers recommended that I study economics and statistics as my A-level subjects, but I had my mind set on a life fulfilled by the arts. I saw myself as an accomplished novelist or an interpreter for the EU.
If you are studying for a degree in arts or languages, you are probably wasting your time, too. I mean this in a literal sense. The next three or four years of your life may be romantic, inspiring and entertaining, but you are still wasting your time. Trust me, I know a thing about time-wasting.
Without realising it, I was a victim of a gender stereotype reinforced since birth, that men do science and maths and women do arts or languages. This prejudice has grown worse over the past two decades. Last week's A-Level results show only 245 girls took A-Level computing this year, compared with 5,153 who took Spanish. This is a decline of 1.3% from last year, despite the fact that the few girls who took A-Level computing outperformed boys.
Computer science, technology and physics just did not figure in my teenage world view. Nobody popular in my school chose to study those subjects.
Reality struck hard when I began attending job interviews and interviewers would say: "It's great that you speak foreign languages, but what else do you do?" Nobody asked my friends who had studied science or technology those questions. While my technical friends were riding the dotcom bubble, my 90s career was barely doggy-paddling along.
I found my way into technology much later. Working at a well-known advertising agency, I was given a number of accounts that others were afraid to touch. Since my colleagues thought of me as a gadget girl, they automatically assumed I'd be better placed to handle accounts such as IBM, HP and DoubleClick.
I found that clients from these technical companies were an interesting bunch of people. They tended to be more strategic than my other clients. They worked with fast product-cycles and, most importantly, they were clever. The technology companies of the late 90s were full of radical people who came to work with an expectation of changing the world.
I was wrong as a young woman to presume that technology was not a creative subject – that's sadly a presumption still shared by a third of school-age girls today.
A survey recently showed that three of the best-paid jobs for women are in the technology sector. It's a sector that really can change the world. You need only look at Kickstarter – every month we see entirely new kinds of products funded. These are inventions that we couldn't even conceive of 10 years ago.
We must show girls that technology has an effect on every industry out there, from fashion to architecture to journalism. I'm reformed – I'm even learning to code. I'm studying Python programming on my Raspberry Pi.
Anybody can learn to code and these days it's as important as reading and writing. I've realised that at university I'd achieved the wrong kind of literacy. Not being able to code limits your impact on the world far more than an ignorance of great literature.Now I have a five-year-old daughter. I don't want her to blindly follow gender roles the way I did. I want her to embrace the fact that a science or technical degree will not limit her creativity but expand it and broaden her horizons far more than my arts background could. I am exposing her to Minecraft and apps such as hopskotch, which help improve analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
While she may not ever know as much as I do about literature, I'm hoping that my daughter will embrace her inner geek and want to change the world.