Subj : Re: New to this
To   : boraxman
From : StormTrooper
Date : Tue Apr 22 2025 06:12 pm

 bo> No doubt that I would prefer someone who studied medicine to perform
 bo> surgery, over someone "self taught".  However "degree preferred" type
 bo> jobs?  Someone smart, able to learn would be just as good.  A friend in
 bo> the software development industry was saying his company for a time was
 bo> looking at SPECIFICALLY people who were self taught, did not do a degree
 bo> in software, to get a different perspective, and not be dissapointed.


Way back when one of my friends did Comp Sci at uni.  Further down the track his opinion of said course, was it had no value.  There was a time back there just having the degree was a thing, and then it faded away like people getting MS quals... it didn't necessarily make for people that were useful for anything.  Interestingly enough, this guy has been teaching english at international schools for as long as I can remember now.

ST

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