Re: Tangling "AS/400 Education" and "Design shift" threads

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott,

you're kinda there in many respects.  I also have a BS and MBA from name
univ's but just happened to take RPG at a CC's night class just to learn
another language....I used to be VERY polylingual...  Further, I fully
support both regular univ's and CC's...they both fill gaps the other
misses...no problems and no flames from me...

But, do keep in kind that when you get your BS, you will tend to work on
the technology that you know, further, employers will tend to hire on the
technology that you have experience on.  Not many employers want to hire
green and teach from square zero....ergo, if you don't have the technology
present in the univ and CC systems you're not going to learn it and since
you don't learn or know it who's going to hire you for it?  Conversely, if
you don't know it(a technology set) why should I hire you when I have to
do all the training that you SHOULD have gotten in college???  

Yeah, I know what it's like work with BS'ers(degree) that didn't have a
clue to blocking factors on tape...funnies damn thing I ever saw was
watching a "senior programmer" try to write a few thousand records to
2-2400 foot tapes (back in 1600bpi days)....he was writing more gap than
data!  He freaked when I put it all on a 200' reel....:)

Also, instructors have a major myopia about what they want to teach
you...rarely does any school (security paranoia etc) want to teach the
system from the inside out!  ...and I won't tell you about some of the
things I did at Clemson or in Chattanooga, but I DID learn the systems
from the inside out....cost me a few bucks, but I knew how to use a box
and program as well....  :)

Don in DC metro...



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