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#3 Posted 18 June 2011 - 08:33 AM
It really depends on what your degree is in friend. Depending on how specific your degrees focus is, you can pretty much land any sort of general job simply based off having a college degree. While your degree might not focus entirely on what the company in question does, it will show them that you are committed to educating yourself and at least competent enough to complete the degree, making it appear you are easily trained for most duty positions.
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#4 Posted 18 June 2011 - 03:36 PM
A college degree is a waste of time unless you are going for a highly technical position like engineering or other advanced science discipline. Otherwise it's going to be a 60k-120k pound anchor of debt around your neck for the next forty odd years while you work a boring cubicle job. A marketing degree, game development degree, philosophy, history, etc are all worthless in the real world.
I'm the head honcho for a county library INS system. I'm the basically the CTO/IT Manager. I hire staff, command staff, purchase/install equipment, set-up networks, etc. I have no degree, no certifications, and at this point in my life...I'm debt free. I have two recently hired CS graduates and while they have a metric ton of memorized book knowledge; they have 0% hands on experience and are at this point pretty much worthless. I had no choice in the hiring; I had 15 people apply and over half of them couldn't even find the ON switch on a desktop. These two morons were at the top of the heap skill wise. Their degree's had nothing to do with it. Even if they wouldn't of had those pieces of paper; I would of still hired these two out of the last batch of applicants.
I'm a proud college drop out! I left after two years when I came to the above realizations that college, for most people, is an expensive and pointless endeavor.
I'm the head honcho for a county library INS system. I'm the basically the CTO/IT Manager. I hire staff, command staff, purchase/install equipment, set-up networks, etc. I have no degree, no certifications, and at this point in my life...I'm debt free. I have two recently hired CS graduates and while they have a metric ton of memorized book knowledge; they have 0% hands on experience and are at this point pretty much worthless. I had no choice in the hiring; I had 15 people apply and over half of them couldn't even find the ON switch on a desktop. These two morons were at the top of the heap skill wise. Their degree's had nothing to do with it. Even if they wouldn't of had those pieces of paper; I would of still hired these two out of the last batch of applicants.
I'm a proud college drop out! I left after two years when I came to the above realizations that college, for most people, is an expensive and pointless endeavor.
"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."
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#5 Posted 18 June 2011 - 03:47 PM
lol,
sadly, a college degree only means that you are competent at following instructions & completing tasks. Experience will always get you farther, of course there are manager who go through applicants and if both have equal experience then they will go with the one who finished college.
My previous boss really enjoyed my performance and work ethic, but he once told me that if he had known about my 2.01 GPA before hand he would have never hired me. People are prejudice not by choice, but because they dont have any other information to go on so they pick the easiest measurement they can have that is validated by the government.
Honestly, if you truly believe what you are getting your degree in matters to your long time career, then keep pushing, otherwise stop and get your job at a small company and work your way through, probably earn more and better than getting out of college without experience.
sadly, a college degree only means that you are competent at following instructions & completing tasks. Experience will always get you farther, of course there are manager who go through applicants and if both have equal experience then they will go with the one who finished college.
My previous boss really enjoyed my performance and work ethic, but he once told me that if he had known about my 2.01 GPA before hand he would have never hired me. People are prejudice not by choice, but because they dont have any other information to go on so they pick the easiest measurement they can have that is validated by the government.
Honestly, if you truly believe what you are getting your degree in matters to your long time career, then keep pushing, otherwise stop and get your job at a small company and work your way through, probably earn more and better than getting out of college without experience.
#6 Posted 29 July 2011 - 02:57 PM
suicide_mission, on 18 June 2011 - 11:47 AM, said:
lol,
sadly, a college degree only means that you are competent at following instructions & completing tasks. Experience will always get you farther, of course there are manager who go through applicants and if both have equal experience then they will go with the one who finished college.
My previous boss really enjoyed my performance and work ethic, but he once told me that if he had known about my 2.01 GPA before hand he would have never hired me. People are prejudice not by choice, but because they dont have any other information to go on so they pick the easiest measurement they can have that is validated by the government.
Honestly, if you truly believe what you are getting your degree in matters to your long time career, then keep pushing, otherwise stop and get your job at a small company and work your way through, probably earn more and better than getting out of college without experience.
sadly, a college degree only means that you are competent at following instructions & completing tasks. Experience will always get you farther, of course there are manager who go through applicants and if both have equal experience then they will go with the one who finished college.
My previous boss really enjoyed my performance and work ethic, but he once told me that if he had known about my 2.01 GPA before hand he would have never hired me. People are prejudice not by choice, but because they dont have any other information to go on so they pick the easiest measurement they can have that is validated by the government.
Honestly, if you truly believe what you are getting your degree in matters to your long time career, then keep pushing, otherwise stop and get your job at a small company and work your way through, probably earn more and better than getting out of college without experience.
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