Re: Experience vs College Degree

--
--
[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]

Why wouldn't Liberal Arts qualify?  In a Science course nothing technical is
useful even a few years later.

My experience is that a degree shows a level of ability and persistance to
one's work.  There's a common experience in college of learning to solve
problems in a group setting, and most management jobs require that ability
-  after all, thats what management is all about.

In other words, find a way to get started on your degree, even if its a 13
year process.

This opinion and $5 will get you coffee at Starbucks.


---------------------------------------------------------
Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@MartinVT.com
---------------------------------------------------------

-------Original Message-------

From: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date: Friday, June 28, 2002 14:16:26
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Experience vs College Degree

Justin,

Very good question. I myself would like to hear some of the more seasoned
professionals' response to this.

What I have found, here in central Pa, is that programmer/analyst is about
as far as you can go without some sort of degree. If you have any ambition
of going into management, I'd get not only the BA or BS, but also an MBA or
some other advanced degree. This, along with your building experience,
would really make you very marketable.

I myself have about 10 years experience in RPG. I also have a degree,
although in fine arts which qualifies me for absolutely nothing. I feel
that I have attained the most advanced position available to me, given my
education and experience. Although, I haven't even thought about exploring
the waters. I am given allot of opportunity to expand my skills here. And I
still really enjoy the nuts and bolts of programming and application
development.


Thanks for the food for thought,

Mark


Mark Walter
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
Hanover Wire Cloth a div of CCX, Inc.
mwalter@hanoverwire.com
http://www.hanoverwire.com
717.637.3795 Ext.3040



"Justin Houchin"
<justin@RELIATEK.CO To: "Midrange-l" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
M> cc:
Sent by: Subject: Experience vs College Degree
midrange-l-admin@mi
drange.com


06/28/02 01:44 PM
Please respond to
midrange-l






This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--
[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]

I know this is off the topic, but I need to ask the programming
community. I am 21 years old and have been programming in RPG and E-RPG
for about 1.5 years. I love it! But I do not have a degree. My question
is do you all feel that I could get turned down for a job over someone
that has a bachelor's degree? This has never happened to me but I do not
want it to ever happen. I am very seriously thinking about starting back
to college at night to get my bachelors in CIS. This is a very hard
decision to make because of the amount of money it will cost to go to
college. That is why I'm am trying to see if job experience would
triumph over a degree. Please give me some pros and cons on this
situation.

Justin Houchin
Programmer and Web Developer
ReliaTek, Inc
justin@reliatek.com


--


_______________________________________________
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list
To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.





_______________________________________________
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list
To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.


.
--
[ Content of type image/gif deleted ]
--