Being cool at school. We all remember that phrase, and what it means. It wasn’t always easy, and it wasn’t something everyone could be. Whether it was being in the soccer team, having the best new sneakers, or simply because you had the coolest clique of friends, cool was always something kids wanted, and want to be seen as. Similarly, there have been, historically and traditionally, professions, jobs, lines of work, vocations that are considered cool.

Professional sports player making millions and enjoy fame, travel journalist exploring the world, acting in Hollywood movies, just a few jobs, or professions, which are often seen as cool, desirable, attractive and sought after. But few people ever scale such dizzy heights and reach the scintillating and glittering apex of those lines of work. In fact, even though these roles may still hold high status, people in ‘real’ jobs are also revered as having jobs that are hip, happening, in vogue and, at least in contemporary terms, fashionable.

With that said, there are of course many other jobs that are considered cool these days, some more recent additions than others. In the world of taste and tech, for example, people have jobs such as quality testing chocolate products, head taste tester at a vineyard, or even trying out crypto casino games before they are rubber stamped for release, effectively being paid to enjoy their time and have fun. All real roles, all arguably cool. All roles what we would nominally consider being in the real world. So, what about tech? The earlier land of nerds and geeks, the hinterland for the boring computer whiz kid. But ow it’s a new world and things may well have changed.

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High Tech, Highly Desirable, Highly Transformed

In years gone by, computer programming and all related jobs were seen as being for the super geeks and, perhaps cruelly, the unpopular types who spent their entire time and life staring into a screen and programming dawn to dusk, or gaming all night ling. This unfair and unfortunate stereotype was often borne out in TV comedies, and society in general. But with the power of IT, the global ubiquity of tech, and the quasi-religious fervour for gadgets and products from Apple et.al., feelings are different.

High tech, and the highly paid, often fiscally lucrative jobs on offer have totally transformed and radically redefined what trendy jobs are. Being a programmer, a coder, a web designing guru, or a tech titan has now gone beyond the erstwhile nerd world categorisation. Are we say it, being involved in a hire-powered or creatively inspiring coding or tech job has now become genuinely cool. So, is tech the new sports pro and is being in IT now classed as being a trendy top dog? One look at the profusion of well-paid tech jobs may well back up this notion.

Whether it is doing the coding for the latest app or website, designing the graphics for the next big gaming release, or developing an award-winning website, jobs in tech can be groundbreaking for many, and are often considered desirable due to the high pay on offer. Indeed, many tech companies pay top dollar to recruit the best-in-class professionals that can now command big bucks in the trendy new world in which they are the cool ones in the class. If they were derided, mocked, pointed at, the butt of jokes before, they may have the last laugh as they take their pick of highly paid, highly desirable, and highly regarded jobs now.

Tech Triumphs as Global Industry Grows Billion Dollar Business

Success isn’t always about how much money one makes. Being cool is not always based on how much you have in the bank. And triumphs are not always measured in dollars. In the world of technology, however, such things can and do matter on a corporate, as well as personal and professional level. With Apple becoming the first trillion-dollar tech company, tech has become one of the de facto world leading industries.

With that status, it is not surprising that those involved in this financial fortress of a sector are now highflyers. From laughed at nerds to global industry leaders, perhaps this is how the now trendy titans of tech can describe their evolution. Put simply, it may be fair to suggest that it is not just the Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg or Musk giants that are enjoying the bounty, the benefits, the burgeoning of this new world, it is everyone else who works in it too.

Now, obviously it depends on who you ask, but I’d be willing to stick my head above the parapet to defend the original thesis of my article: tech is now a trendy industry in which to work, and coding is cool. Not everyone will agree, and you’re free to disagree. But with the global landscape dominated by so many tech companies, the global community so collectively obsessed with technology in general, and more and more tech entrepreneurs entering the hallowed world of millionaires, or even billionaires, I’d love to hear the counterargument…