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  • From: "saundrakaerubel.com" <saundrakae AT saundrakaerubel.com>
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Do IT workers need 4 year degrees?
  • Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:30:14 -0700


Can you say BoBo?

At 12:24 PM 09/27/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> > As the day-to-day work of IT professionals becomes more specialized,
> > the lessons from a four-year college education become less relevant.
>
>Let me make sure I get it: They want to take maladjusted teenage geeks,
>give them more money than they've ever seen, and deprive them of the 4
>years where they're most likely to make new friends and get laid?
>
>
>If college were simply about education, I don't think anyone would go.
>I don't necessarily think that having/not having the slip of paper ought
>be a litmus test for a job application, but I do know that the techs I
>have run into who completely bypassed college have had deficiencies that,
>IMO, could probably have been helped by being in a little more structured
>environment. Maybe I'm biased because I'm a little peeved at the 18-y.o.
>webhead who I'm having to cleanup after, since he had no idea how to
>structure/manage the server side of his pretty pages.
>
>
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