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- From: will@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Will Morse)
- Newsgroups: de.comp.lang.c,de.comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.databases.sybase,comp.databases.oracle,comp.databases.informix,comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions
- Date: 13 Feb 1996 09:32:27 -0600
- Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. +1 713 968 5800
- Message-ID: <4fqaub$gh9@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
- References: <AMCHAVAN.96Jan25112007@ac2.hq.eso.org> <311A83D1.57A3@feith.com> <4fe4m4$f1c@news.ee.net> <clolson.823879181@me.umn.edu>
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- In article <clolson.823879181@me.umn.edu>,
- Curt Olson <clolson@jade.me.umn.edu> wrote:
- >>>Bill Wendling wrote:
- >>>>
- >>>> Alberto Maurizio Chavan inexplicably wrote:
- >>>>
- >>>> } Education:
- >>>> } University degree in Computer Sciences or equivalent.
- >>>>
- >>>> I always love it when people ask for such and such degree in CS. Didn't
- >>>> one of the people who started up Apple not have a degree in CS until
- >>>> long after the company get started? :) And look at The Gates!
- >
-
- [ A lot of peoples comments skipped here]
-
- Getting a degree is not about learning specific facts and skills, it is
- learning to think like a person with a degree in that general area
- (in other words, BS people learn to think like BS people, engineers
- learn to think like engineers, accountants learn to think like accountants,
- etc.)
-
- The value of a degree is not that you gain anything in terms of raw ability,
- what you gain is perspective, contacts, discipline (well, so they say),
- and experience working in a "professional" role, as opposed to high school
- which pretty much aims at a techician/assembly line role.
-
- It is obvious that not all computer related jobs require such training and
- is even more obvious that human resources people never have any idea of
- what is required to do any specific job and so they always tack on a degree
- in the subject.
-
- At the same time, a degree can't hurt you (and it has been definitively
- proven that persons with calculus and physics backgrounds make better
- lovers :-) ) and may improve your ability to grow with the changes over
- an entire 40 year career.
-
- At least this ad said
-
- University degree in Computer Sciences or equivalent.
-
- so they were not demanding a degree as such.
-
- Will
- --
- # Gravity, # Will Morse
- # not just a good idea, # BHP Petroleum (Americas) Inc.
- # it's the law. # Houston, Texas
- # # will@starbase.neosoft.com
- #
- # These are my views and do not necessarly reflect the views of BHP !
-