Greetings
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> On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 09:01, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote:
> > My advice would be to look at what sort of position you
> > would like to get and train appropriately, and remember
> > that the cost is insignificant compared to potential
> > earnings you would make with higher qualifications. :-)
>
> Codswallop. How many students are coming out of university these days with
> a $30 000 student loan, and how much more money do they make because of
> having a qualification?
I disagree. I have approx 30k of student loan - the result of
5 1/2 years of study. On the other hand, the job I was offered
after honours paid 12k less than that after an MSc (different
places and specialisations, though), and I got my first choice
of job. By maintaining a student lifestyle (mostly 8) ), I should
be able to pay off the loan in somewhat under 3 years - after which
the excess becomes profit.
More importantly, instead of becoming yet another database programmer,
I got to pick what I wanted to do. Of course, YMMV.
> > Experience is very important these days as there are
> > hordes of young'uns coming out of all the spherions and
> > the likes with these new qualifications so you need to
> > stand out from the bunch, having a more mature outlook
> > or experience in other areas could be useful, but try
> > and get any work experience you can, technical referees
> > would be useful :-).
Work experience is good - may give you money, probably gives you
a referee, definately gives you depth. And it proves that you can
work (in the real world)...
Theuns
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