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re: What are you telling your kids about getting a degree/career?
Posted on 4/5/13 at 12:17 pm to lsufan112001
Posted on 4/5/13 at 12:17 pm to lsufan112001
JMO, but theres no predicting what the industry of the future is. There are some safer bets but nothing is certain. It's the very nature of rapidly evolving Technology and a Capitalist economy.
Every Tom, Dick and Harry was getting an MIS degree during the dotcom bubble thinking they'd be the next Silicon Valley millionaire; and now half of them cant find a job outside of the Best Buy Geek Squad.
I still believe a degree has value but will admit that it appears the US isnt competing as well as we used to from a global perspective. I worry that at this rate the US Masters degree will be the minimum necessary to compete with some Asian and European BS degrees.
Every Tom, Dick and Harry was getting an MIS degree during the dotcom bubble thinking they'd be the next Silicon Valley millionaire; and now half of them cant find a job outside of the Best Buy Geek Squad.
I still believe a degree has value but will admit that it appears the US isnt competing as well as we used to from a global perspective. I worry that at this rate the US Masters degree will be the minimum necessary to compete with some Asian and European BS degrees.
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Posted on 4/5/13 at 12:48 pm to wiltznucs
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Every Tom, Dick and Harry was getting an MIS degree during the dotcom bubble thinking they'd be the next Silicon Valley millionaire; and now half of them cant find a job outside of the Best Buy Geek Squad.
MIS is one of those weird fields (this is what I do). It's been around for a while as a degree program but still to this day, about half the people I work with have degrees in something else (including myself).
You can teach someone coding, good database development/administration practices, application design/deployment, etc etc, but IMO you don't really learn it until you are inside of an organization that can give it all context.
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