Chris wrote: >If salaries and job opportunities really depended on core skills it >might be different but industry just takes the crap they get and ends up >doing OJT anyway.
I fully understand this point of view. After all, when accounting students graduate, they can immediately use what they learned, e.g. balance a corp's books. When a med student graduates, they can apply what their learned as well (although, I'd rather be worked on by a seasoned doc). But, when a CS person graduates, he/she is better suited to simply go on to grad school, or go work for a vendor (e.g. IBM). I'm a product of the system (CS puke), but I recognized that I needed marketable skills (SNOBOL was fun, but it doesn't pay the bills). So, I went outside the university and took classes on BAL, and other like subjects. Actually, I got my first job because I had learned Mark IV during my summer job. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
