Well, to be honest about it, the paper on the wall DOES count. The school, be it good, be it bad, has a big quality: it teaches you a methodical way to approach things.
Tell me, Virgil, would you go to surgery to a surgeon that looks into your eyes and says: "well, what the hell, I didn't study medicine, I'm a self tought.". Would you? On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Virgil Bierschwale <[email protected]>wrote: > I think a lot of todays recruiters and HR depts don't realize that back > in the mid to late 80's, there was no formal education for what we did. > > I was fortunate and took a structured programming class at Andover > College in Portland Maine where a guy taught me all about switches and > stuff like that and that helped a lot, but again, there wasn't really > any formal education and we acquired the skills on our own and we > learned, or we got out of the business.and found something we were more > suited for. > > That spirit built most of the World's current technology, but now it is > disallowed by the ones that believe a person's skills are determined by > the paper on a wall? > > On 4/2/2010 3:07 AM, Stephen Weeks wrote: > > I started around 20 years ago, to tell the truth I got into software > > development by deception ... I had been unemployed for around 6 months > > during a recession, I told a local computer company that I knew how to > > develop in Informix 4GL, of course I had never heard of it. My thinking > > at the time was "At least I will get a months salary before they catch > > on that I'm fake", day 1, I picked up the Informix 4GL manual and by the > > end of the day I had a customer module developed ? > > In the ensuing years I developed a job costing application in Informix > > 4GL on the Unix operating system and found a company in Belfast that > > wanted to take it on and sell it, with me as an employee. During the > > marketing of this we discovered that (1) Informix 4GL runs like a dog in > > DOS/Windows (2) The vast majority of users had PC's/Windows. We searched > > for the best Windows/DOS development tool and came up with Foxpro 2.6 I > > believe, the product was redeveloped and to this day I'm still a fake :) > > > > Absolutely no formal education. > > > > Regards > > Steve > > > > > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 9.0.800 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2784 - Release Date: 04/01/10 > 13:32:00 > > > > > > -- > Virgil Bierschwale > Vets Finding Vets <http://www.VetsFindingVets.org> > Keep America At Work <http://www.KeepAmericaAtWork.com> > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
