i didert gone to collige ant i kin pergrom jest good then.
college is for getting stoned and chasing young women, if you waste your time learning you deserve the cube you now live in. dynamic people do dynamic things, that's it. college was for fun. degrees are essentialy meaningless. i know scads of programmers with CS degrees whose code is shit, and i know people with no education whose code is shit as well. and vice versa. if someone were ot hire me cuz i had a degree, i wouldn't want to work for them anyway.
if you're going out and gettting a degree after you are already in IT - dont. i got my BA in studio art and political science- i started IT in web site design, then web dev, now server side open source solutions. i'm saying if you have the skills, your degree wont mean shit unless you have the experience to back it up. i think mentoring or finding a mentor in a new technology is much more useful. one of my mentors has no degree whatsoever, and was on the original foxpro teams (first few versions) he's been IT manager, CTO, and many other roles in IT- not having an undergrad never hurt him- he just dove in. i have another mentor who got a double maj BA in CS and math, and he is also well regarded and respected- in short, one understands theory and programming, the other leans towards real-world implementations and programming.
build your value through your skill set, not through an university. you're better off saving you money.
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and what, exactly, does your title imply my friend?
i didert gone to collige ant i kin pergrom jest good then. college is for getting stoned and chasing young women, if you waste your time learning you deserve the cube you now live in. dynamic people do dynamic things, that's it. college was for fun. degrees are essentialy meaningless. i know scads of programmers with CS degrees whose code is shit, and i know people with no education whose code is shit as well. and vice versa. if someone were ot hire me cuz i had a degree, i wouldn't want to work for them anyway.
if you're going out and gettting a degree after you are already in IT - dont. i got my BA in studio art and political science- i started IT in web site design, then web dev, now server side open source solutions. i'm saying if you have the skills, your degree wont mean shit unless you have the experience to back it up. i think mentoring or finding a mentor in a new technology is much more useful. one of my mentors has no degree whatsoever, and was on the original foxpro teams (first few versions) he's been IT manager, CTO, and many other roles in IT- not having an undergrad never hurt him- he just dove in. i have another mentor who got a double maj BA in CS and math, and he is also well regarded and respected- in short, one understands theory and programming, the other leans towards real-world implementations and programming. build your value through your skill set, not through an university. you're better off saving you money.