Advice to students wanting to get into the ICT industry: You are rarely going to get an opportunity to have your current employer pay for you to learn things, so learn them on your own and be in a position to leverage the skills when a new project comes along. But if you have a passion for technology, you’ll already be doing it, and enjoying it without needing me to tell you to. That’s why passionate people have a leg up.

http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/05/a-commencement-speech-for-graduating-2013-cs-majors.html