What profession to choose for a ninth grader who does not know what IT is?

Question

IT education

The little man knows nothing and doesn’t really want to except how to enter IT, but where? — I can not advise, as well as his parents. The only thing I can say is that according to the results, successful employment is the main thing, otherwise it is a waste of time. How to choose a profession, how to check his abilities and where to direct?

About the candidate,
Fizmat: bad grades, but remembers visual information well - does not need repetition (saw-repeated); English is easy, showed interest in mechanical puzzles

Answer 1

The little man knows nothing and doesn’t really want to except how to enter IT, but where?

Let him think for himself, there is no need to decide anything for such people.

The only thing I can say is that according to the results, successful employment is the main thing, otherwise it is a waste of time.

Why do you think people get different grades at school, although they study with the same teachers, use the same textbooks, and even sit next to each other in the same lessons?
No education gives knowledge. Knowledge is taken by the student himself, and if he knows how to take it, then it does not matter where to go, he will study the necessary and interesting areas. And if you just send him to the best institute at the Faculty of IT, and he just sits there for 5 years, he doesn’t even want anything - of course, nothing will work out and he won’t get a job anywhere.

How to choose a profession, how to check his abilities and where to direct?

There are no abilities in the world. There are simply skills that you have acquired by doing some things. I was engaged in constructors in childhood - perhaps there are "ability" to work with my hands, but they need to be developed.
I sang a lot at parties and tried to play the guitar - it is quite possible that when you go to a music school, you will find "ability" for music, but which need to be developed.
It is the same with IT - if you can't do anything, you don't have a hobby, you're not interested in anything - it means you don't have any abilities. We need to develop them, and apply to this effort.
So my advice is to stay out of his life. If he wants to be in IT, let him learn how to use the search - there is SO MANY information on the Internet that you can find out everything. And if he is not even ready to spend efforts on this, but wants someone to immediately chew everything for him, then he is definitely not in IT. Here you need to be able to work with a large amount of information and be able to filter it yourself.

Answer 2

A car mechanic, or a carpenter, just goes to a vocational school after the 9th grade.
I'm serious, I myself ended up in the late 90s, and I do not regret that I "felt" a real profession. You can always roll in and out.

Successful employment is key

- False. You can easily find a job by profession and at the same time hate it.

Answer 3

The only thing I can say is that according to the results, successful employment is the main thing, otherwise it is a waste of time.

The main thing for whom? Is that his idea, or yours? Then such 'successful' sit for years at a hated job.

apply to IT

Fizmat: bad grades

This question is starting to sound like trolling.
The possibility of obtaining a bachelor's degree in taxes is one. Let him go and work in different areas, he will understand what he is dragging himself from, and only then decides whether he needs to go to a university and which one.
PS Going to a university in the it direction without skills in it is brilliant.

Answer 4

A programmer needs "Physical Mathematics" not because he will take integrals all his life, but because "Physical Mathematics" develops precisely those "settings" of the brain that are needed for successful programming. If this is not the case, then why force yourself, do something that the soul does not lie to? By the way, to remember - what is visual, what is somehow different - in modern programming there is just no special need, in contrast to specific logical and technical thinking.
Why in IT? Because you like driving toys on your computer? It is better to look for those professions for which there is an inclination, and not to produce crowds of losers. Even with IT education in your pocket. Thousands of such people are already wandering around, and in a dozen years they will be in general, like marketing accountants.

Answer 5

There are a lot of jobs in IT.
It seems to me that this young man is able to choose the direction that is most interesting to him.

Physics and Mathematics: bad grades, but remembers visual information well - does not need repetition (saw-repeated); English is easy, showed interest in mechanical puzzles

He doesn't say anything at all.

The only thing I can say is that according to the results, successful employment is the main thing, otherwise it is a waste of time.

Wasted time is study and work in the profession that you do not like, which you chose in a hurry, or it was chosen for you.
Kontur has a youtube channel - a series of videos about various IT professions has just been released there. You can give this ninth grader a tip, let him know what IT is.

Answer 6

3D element designer. And IT, and since the subject has good image manipulation skills, he can and will be able to create something beautiful.