5 Jan
2012
5 Jan
'12
9:35 p.m.
> But, how is "computer programmer"
DEFINED for the purpose of those
> numbers? ?(What categories are available?)
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I completely understand the limitations of Federal job
designations,
but this is what I was able to pull up, and at least shows that "one
in a million" is a vast undercount. I was not trying to suggest it is
an all-inclusive/properly-exclusive statistic. I'm certainly willing
to stand behind "less than 1%" of the workforce programs computers for
a living, but how many slivers of a percent is it really? A few,
probably.
Your point is adequately supported.
My questioning of the statistic was not meant to challenge its validity as
an approximation.
I am quite seriously interested in such statistics, but for them to be
more meaningful than as an extremely rough approximation, there are always
issues of their derivation. My father's field was "Social Science
Research Methods", so I'm a bit obsessive over statistics sources.
employees). There was nothing even remotely close to
that in the
Federal Job Register. I was declared a Mainframe Systems Programmer
Ah HA! So, YOU got counted in that number
I started my career as a contractor, paid on a 1099,
and filing a
Schedule C (talk about growing up fast)... I seem to recall the same
paperwork dilemma you had, and my accountant picked something similar
for that blank as well.
If a kid were to put up a lemonade stand, would it qualify as child abuse
for the parent to make them do a chedule C?