...what matters is what the people in the executive suite think you need. If they're a bunch of Harvard MBA clones, you can have 25 years of field experience, an instructor background, and security clearances out the wazoo, and still lose out to some wet-behind-the-ears kid who just happens to have a silly piece of paper that you don't.
Sounds like you might have come across some equipment from an attempt to build a nuclear ramjet. It was called
Project Pluto.
...what matters is what the people in the executive suite think you need. If they're a bunch of Harvard MBA clones, you can have 25 years of field experience, an instructor background, and security clearances out the wazoo, and still lose out to some wet-behind-the-ears kid who just happens to have a silly piece of paper that you don't.