What is a “dirty little secret” about an industry, that people ought to know?

I work in software in Sweden. We have this system between high school and college called KY-education (short for Qualified Job education, nothing else...). Some of those are quite all right, but I still haven't met anyone that has gone through a KY-education in software development that has ever been hire-material.

Back when I had another profession and was doing programming just for fun, I still knew more about computers and programming than anyone I have met that has gone through one of those programmes. Yes, you can develop android apps, but why does your eyes go blank when you see pointer arithmetic?

I worked at a Taco Bell. The meat came in a bag and it was grey. Mostly bones I guess.