The Age reckons nowadays that all the cool kids workers need IT degreees, regardless of what they’re doing.

In the 1970s, an arts degree gave graduates the foundation to get a good job in most fields. In the 1980s it was a law degree, and in the late 1990s it was a commerce degree. But this looks to be the decade of the IT degree.

Sure, but I’ve got both the commerce degree and the IT degree, and where has it got me?