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Personally, I think most education like that is a waste of time, if you're thinking in terms of getting employed. I'd focus on experience, networking and experience. If you can't get experience through a position, then get it through volunteering, or working on Open Source projects. I've brought in about half a dozen people in my time with this company. all but one were hired because I knew their work, either through CLUG, or elsewhere and 1 was hired because of his contacts inside this company. I've never seen their resumes, and I don't know (or care about) the education of any of them. Education (as a general rule) seems to be a self sustaining industry. People are fooled into thinking that they're investing money in themself, but they're really just getting better trained for more school. I'd love to see the stats on how many people are working in the field that they went to school for. But I'd bet that it's quite low. There are exceptions, perhaps most obviously, Doctors, but other than that, anything beyond core technical training on something that you need IMMEDIATE knowledge about is semi-useless. And this won't change soon, because the schools don't care. They simply make the useless courses "mandatory" so that teachers with tenure can teach useless subjects that are no longer relevant rather than being expected/required to stay current, which happens to their students in the real world. Most people take university education because their parent's tell them it's best for them. Most parents pay for it because after 8 or 10 years with a teenager, they'll gladly pay to have them out of the house. And lets face it, when our parents were in school, things didn't change so fast, meaning topics covered in school stayed relevant for longer. Right now, who gets paid the most? Is it educated people? (Obviously teachers, scientists, etc, say PHD or better) or is salary/job security completely disconnected from education, and rather it focuses on a specific skill, which, quite frankly, no school can adequately teach. (Musicians, Athletes, Investors, etc). This is particularly true in IT. Think about these people, their education vs their experience. On which basis would you hire them? Bill Gates. Larry Ellison Andrew Tridgell Andrew Bartlett Linus Torvalds Michael Dell Lou Gerstner James Gossling Andrew Morton Hans Reiser Eric S Raymond etc etc etc Kev. On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:00, Giovanni Cuzzola wrote: > Hello everyone, > > can anyone give any feedback with the Bachelor applied degree in > Information Systems at Sait? I am interested in taking it, but I dont know > if it is a good idea or not, counting the I already have the diploma in > Computer Technology. > > thanks, > > Giovanni _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
