Choose your adventure!!! I still have all the ones from my childhood, my personal favorite being the crystal caverns:-) 'if you decide to attack the troll, please turn to page 94, if you run turn to page 53'
Having read through the volume of posts, I noticed that one thing was constant, people are saying lack of a College degree is harming their search for a job.
Let me preface this by stating I have no degree, but I am curently working on one in MIS. I have experienced first hand the trouble you can run into when applying for a job w/o a degree. However, I've been a geek since I was 10 (I'm 26 now) starting with the venerable Atari 800XL to the multinode network I have at home now.
I personally think a College degree is overrated when it comes to IT. Really good IT people love what they do, and because of that they work on it all the time to become better. The site I'm at now requires a BA to get in, but contractors don't need a degree. I came on as a contractor, and they were impressed enough to hire me, even though I have no degree. I love what I do, and I use the companies paid training to learn all sorts of stuff. The contractor conversion route is a fine way to get in, but you need.... *drum roll* experience to get hired. that's the catch 22. I got my experience by settling for a job making enough to get by, doing routine coding/support, and used that time to sharpen my skills.. a year later I bailed and joined the contract ranks. Don't assume you deserve 60K+ because you can hack with the best, the companies that are going to pay you that expect you to know how to function in a corp. environment, and that's learned through experience. On the flip side, I'm learning college will teach you how to be a programmer, how to think in data stuctured and algorithms, and solve problems. Some people are good enough that they don't need that base, I find it helps me greatly.
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is that we need lasers set up in an inefficient pattern surrounding the box itself.
God is suing them, claiming they are copyrighting his derivative works, citing the DMCA. (deity Millenium Copyright act)
I know!
I have tapes where uhhh.. certain.. uhh "scenes" are all distorted from repeated rewind-play-rewind-play
-T
Warcraft III and Neverwinter nights.. within weeks of each other?
I need to buy a lot of caffeinated products!
-T
Perhaps if you read carefully.. you'd notice it was a phone conversation, typed verbatim.
Choose your adventure!!! I still have all the ones from my childhood, my personal favorite being the crystal caverns :-) 'if you decide to attack the troll, please turn to page 94, if you run turn to page 53'
Is is me? or does the same guy do the the voice-overs for every trailer? :)
Having read through the volume of posts, I noticed that one thing was constant, people are saying lack of a College degree is harming their search for a job.
Let me preface this by stating I have no degree, but I am curently working on one in MIS. I have experienced first hand the trouble you can run into when applying for a job w/o a degree. However, I've been a geek since I was 10 (I'm 26 now) starting with the venerable Atari 800XL to the multinode network I have at home now.
I personally think a College degree is overrated when it comes to IT. Really good IT people love what they do, and because of that they work on it all the time to become better. The site I'm at now requires a BA to get in, but contractors don't need a degree. I came on as a contractor, and they were impressed enough to hire me, even though I have no degree. I love what I do, and I use the companies paid training to learn all sorts of stuff. The contractor conversion route is a fine way to get in, but you need.... *drum roll* experience to get hired. that's the catch 22. I got my experience by settling for a job making enough to get by, doing routine coding/support, and used that time to sharpen my skills.. a year later I bailed and joined the contract ranks. Don't assume you deserve 60K+ because you can hack with the best, the companies that are going to pay you that expect you to know how to function in a corp. environment, and that's learned through experience. On the flip side, I'm learning college will teach you how to be a programmer, how to think in data stuctured and algorithms, and solve problems. Some people are good enough that they don't need that base, I find it helps me greatly.