My current employer has been laying people off left and right so I've been job hunting in my area and haven't had much luck. I think that most of the reason is because the area I'm looking at is comprised of smaller towns/communities.
If you are going to be job hunting in/near your states capitol or one of your states top 10 cities then the market will probably be large enough that you could get any of the degrees and do just fine.
However, if you're like me, and stuck in a more rural setting then you'll probably want to go with the degrees geared more towards the business end.
All the openings I've looked into in my area are looking for people with experience in particular software packages, not just general CS knowledge. (i.e. JD Edwards, MAPICS, MS Project, etc)
The job I got right out of college was programming in RPG and they still sent me 50 miles away for a couple weeks to take classes direct from IBM. And once I finally got started on the programming I found it was nothing like the RPG they taught in college, which was quite out-dated. Even the IBM courses focussed on writing programs that only generated reports that went to printers. My actual programming was over 50 percent involved in creating interactive data-entry programs which neither IBM or college had prepared me for. I had to learn that from fellow programmers and looking at other source code.
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If you are going to be job hunting in/near your states capitol or one of your states top 10 cities then the market will probably be large enough that you could get any of the degrees and do just fine.
However, if you're like me, and stuck in a more rural setting then you'll probably want to go with the degrees geared more towards the business end.
All the openings I've looked into in my area are looking for people with experience in particular software packages, not just general CS knowledge. (i.e. JD Edwards, MAPICS, MS Project, etc)
The job I got right out of college was programming in RPG and they still sent me 50 miles away for a couple weeks to take classes direct from IBM. And once I finally got started on the programming I found it was nothing like the RPG they taught in college, which was quite out-dated. Even the IBM courses focussed on writing programs that only generated reports that went to printers. My actual programming was over 50 percent involved in creating interactive data-entry programs which neither IBM or college had prepared me for. I had to learn that from fellow programmers and looking at other source code.
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