RE: Experience vs College Degree

[J Michael Smith <JMichael.Smith@xxxxxxxx>]

Invest in the college degree.  Then the "lack of it" can never become an
issue.

Michael Smith
27+ years IT experience
BBA from the University of Mississippi

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From: Justin Houchin [mailto:justin@RELIATEK.COM]
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 12:45 PM
To: Midrange-l
Subject: Experience vs College Degree


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I know this is off the topic, but I need to ask the programming
community. I am 21 years old and have been programming in RPG and E-RPG
for about 1.5 years. I  love it! But I do not have a degree. My question
is do you all feel that I could get turned down for a job over someone
that has a bachelor's degree? This has never happened to me but I do not
want it to ever happen. I am very seriously thinking about starting back
to college at night to get my bachelors in CIS. This is a very hard
decision to make because of the amount of money it will cost to go to
college. That is why I'm am trying to see if job experience would
triumph over a degree. Please give me some pros and cons on this
situation.

Justin Houchin
Programmer and Web Developer
ReliaTek, Inc
justin@reliatek.com


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