(November 7, 2011 at 11:10 pm)MilesTailsPrower Wrote:Quote:Stick with it Miles
Are you kidding me? Basic memorization is not really complaisant with being intelligent in cognitive faculties. If anything I am not seeing a broad future ahead of me even with the grades I have. Looking at the situation my parent is in with job applications it begs the question "Does a formal education even count?" She has a masters degree in teaching and spent 10 years looking for a teaching job and nothing has came of it, so now she gave that up and is currently looking for a medical job. I guess I'm not very sagacious when it comes to "life".
Getting any job in any industry that is established at the moment for the most part requires a college degree. Sure, you can scrape on the edges or get lucky, but try getting a job when you've a shit load of experience but lack the magic PhD to be considered by entities like Google.
You put a cap on your education, you build a wall further down the road.
Now, staying in academia too long? That's a whole 'nother story of what not to do. Unless, of course, academia likes you and supports you.
In a choice between you and someone else, an employer will opt for better experience and degree. If both are close enough in experience, the one wielding the magic paper of 4+ years lost will win.
I know -- I'm on my own one year break to work (before I graduate) and have found ridiculous blocks in the software development industry despite my 4+ years experience working in it. That piece of paper is a definitely a metaphorical key sometimes.
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