[olug] [OT] IT degrees

[Brady Cox]

So this thread shows that everyone has a different opinion.  Here's my
several cents...

As someone who does interviews, yeah I look at the resume.  When I
look at education, I generally look for coursework and try to see what
the individual tried to get out of the education experience, then I
will ask questions about that.

As someone who went to a crappy school, when I see that on the resume
I have my doubts.  I picked my school because it was Linux heavy and
generally when I could pick between doing an easy assignment doing
Windows stuff, I'd ask if I could do the Linux equivalent instead.  My
reasoning was that I was paying a lot of money to have access to that
lab, so why should I waste my time working with software that I didn't
want to work with when I got out of school?  That attitude is what got
me my current job, not the degree.  In fact I got hired about 6 months
before I graduated (yes, I did actually finish).  I'd say that out of
all the classmates I had at that crappy tech school (Westwood, if
you're curious) I'd only recommend hiring about 4 of them.

I guess the main question is What do you want to achieve?  The lamest
question ever follows: Where do you want to be in five years?

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Aric <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of T.
> J. Brumfield
> Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 7:10 PM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] [OT] IT degrees
>
> Zombie herds?  I'm picturing zombie cows going "ggggrrrraaaaaiiiinnnnsss!"
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Aric <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
>> I would study swarm intelligence as to harness the power of the zombie
> mass
>> of ADHD computer geeks.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
>> Jason Zeisler
>> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 4:54 PM
>> To: olug at olug.org
>> Subject: [olug] [OT] IT degrees
>>
>> Hi guys. New to the OLUG scene, but I have been following the emails for
> the
>> last couple of weeks. I hope to make it down to Omaha from Sioux City some
>> night for a meeting. The Sioux City group disappeared as far as I know.
>> My question:
>> What do you guys, especially those of you who have/are involved in
>> hiring, think of on line tech degrees? I would love to get a job as an
> *nix
>> administrator or programmer and I am looking on continuing my education
> with
>> an online computer science degree. Any words of wisdom?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jason Z.
>>
>> ________________________________________________
>>
>> What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
>> John Lubbock
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