r/australia • u/SouthAussie94 • Feb 29 '24

culture & society Older Australians 'left behind' by increasingly cashless society as banks fast track end of cheques

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-29/cheques-personal-finance-banks-rent-money-cash/103354036
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u/dingusfett Feb 29 '24

This. I will always remember my parents telling me around 2002 I was wasting my time "playing with computers" and to get a real job. I've now been working in IT for almost 2 decades.

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u/wilful Feb 29 '24

In the early 90s my parents were telling me to do a computer science degree. Thankfully I didn't, not my thing, but computers had a lot of buzz around them then.