Re: ADVERTISING SUPPORT FOR AS/400 ANNOUNCEMENT -Reply

[Scott Cornell <CORNELLS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

re: the dearth of good CS programs at
Amreican universities:  

One could always try combing the
engineering departments.  I'm a Computer
Engineering graduate of a really big time
university, and believe me, 80-90% of my
time was spent on techie things, lots of
programming and even lots of hardware
(which has been VERY handy on several
thorny professional problems.)  In my case,
I just decided that designing the chips/
systems, while possibly more lucrative, was
just too %#*$& tedious to do 10-12 hrs/day,
6 days/week.  So, I took the "other" route
and do software instead.  Surely, I can't
be the only such person in all the world.

Besides, dream on about colleges not having
C/S people take Western Civ and whatnot...
most college administrators/profs/whatever
will tell you (usually with a certain tone
of superiority) that "a good college
education is more than JOB TRAINING - it is
turning out well-rounded citizens" or some
such.  Not that there's anything wrong with
that attitude (heck, I even enjoyed my
token Humanities requirement courses), but
as you say it sure makes finding qualifed
people amongst college grads something of a
crap shoot.

JMHO

Scott Cornell
Mercy Information Systems
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