On 3/26/08, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am really going to have to disagree with the majority of people that > assume that a Master's degree is worthless. It isn't. It might be > harder right out of graduate school, if you didn't work during that > time. I have worked full-time while in graduate school, so I have an > edge up on everyone else that graduated with me. It is a tie breaker. > If I am going for a job with someone else with similar experience, I am > going to have a better chance because I have the more advanced degree.
Other things being equal, that's probably true. But there are other tie breakers. I'd take the guy who spent 20h/wk for 4 years making a name for himself in OSS, or the guy who spent that time just writing something he thought was cool, over the guy with a MS degree, for instance. In other words, opportunity cost is everything. (And in the more common case you mention -- "everyone else that graduated with me" that went to school full time -- I'd take the guy with two years of on-the-job experience over the guy with two extra years of school.) Not hating on your degree; just pointing out that for CS at least, improved employability is a poor reason to get one. -Jonathan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
