On Jan 28, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Traylor, Terry wrote:
When asked about the significance of a college degree for a
prospective
employee, a friend responded that it showed that the individual had to
do thing they didn't like or didn't want to do, but did them well
enough
to pass. The same could be said of any branch of military service.
Terry Traylor
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Terry:
I was in the Army (back in the early 70's) and just from my
experience I am not sure I can agree with you on that.
I had exposure from e2's to Full bird Colonel's. The lifers (as we
called them) were sometimes nice people but technical?? nope. I had
to train 2 sp/7's and 1 E5 and not one of them had any idea what JCL
was and they never wrote a lick of code. When IBM came in to give os
an OS/Internals class There were two enlisted people. Myself and an
(on leave from IBM type) who had been drafted. He was one of the
people who wrote MVS internals(it was being worked on in the early
70's) and he was so far advanced he snickered when the instructor was
talking about dispatching priority and he said under his breath you
don't know what's coming.
The LT's were generally nice and had some experience but they did
learn quickly I will give them that. I caught one doing something
that was a "NO no" and turned him in. It was no biggy but the rules
had to be enforced.
The point I am trying to get across is that most army types do not
fit in well at a programmer jobs. I did *NOT* say all just most.
So I don't think you can site army types as having a college degree.
Ed
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