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I go with your first choice. We usually drive to Alewife and take the T in. The one time I had to drive to Boston for an interview was a nightmare. The interview was at Suffolk and parking was RIDICULOUSLY expensive.Comment
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I think if one take it serious it can make them more responsible, but it also comes down to what employers use as a judging stick if you know I mean.This is very true but at the same time I firmly believe it's a huge mistake to believe this line of thought.
Having spent decades in education I can honestly say the current "process" of getting a college degree actually makes one lazy/apathetic and if possible...dumb...in many if not most cases.Comment
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After going a year and a half without being able to find any job, I'm feeling like a degree is underrated. I was told before graduation that a CIS degree was almost guaranteed work and that employers would be looking for graduates with little to no experience so they could bring them up doing things their way. Instead, I've got a 18 month period of looking lazy to any prospective employer.
That said, I know that if my graduating class was any indication, the degree definitely shouldn't be the determining factor. Seems as though anyone can get one.Comment
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Yeah, any area around the colleges is impossible to park at. Since it looks like I may be going into Boston a bit more to visit someone who goes to school in the "Fenways" I'll be parking at the Riverside station and taking the green line in.Comment
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I've been saying these things for years. I know more than a few people with college degrees ranging from the early 20s to mid 40s and some of these very same people are working in mailrooms, grocery stores or unemployed due to the economy. Me personally, I know I've slipped through the cracks being a HS dropout myself. Luckily, all the experience I got in my job field (9 years)landed me a job over I'm sure half a dozen candidates who had college degrees, etc.http://neverfollow.biz (Independent Music Group)Comment
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What field are you in?I've been saying these things for years. I know more than a few people with college degrees ranging from the early 20s to mid 40s and some of these very same people are working in mailrooms, grocery stores or unemployed due to the economy. Me personally, I know I've slipped through the cracks being a HS dropout myself. Luckily, all the experience I got in my job field (9 years)landed me a job over I'm sure half a dozen candidates who had college degrees, etc.
Do people know you dropped out of high school?
Just being nosy...don't mind me.
Having spent my entire career in education, I always find it interesting when someone doesn't go the formal education route in life.
That's probably because I've spent my entire life dealing with people who have 3 to 4 college degrees that would F up a one-car funeral.For Milbut
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I'm in the arts (Graphic Design) and I can say a degree doesn't matter, but at the same time one has to be really talented to simply be hired on experience/merit alone. Schooling does help in my case because it allows me to build my skills, create a robust portfolio, allows me to network (professors, students, organizations, etc), and is pushing & exposing me to new finer points.
I equate it to being a blue chip talent & being molded by a great coaching staff.Comment
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Yahoo has an article on their front page that says in people 25 and over (over the last 12 months) the unemployment rate for people with a degree is 4-6 percent lower on average compared to those without a degree...
Randomly saw it and thought of this thread when I read it...obviously it depends on what your field is without a degree though.
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what school are you attending and what are you going for....I was thinking about an MBA in Information Technology.Comment
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I disagree that degrees are overrated, because I feel that hiring managers want someone who has dedicated themselves to earning their education. However, i do believe that certain degrees are more useful than others. in the end, I believe that a combination of book smarts and street smarts will get you a long way in life."Limits, like Fears, Are Often Just An Illusion"
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Degrees aren't overrated, in my opinion anyway. It is dependent on the particular career path you plan on taking, but someone who has a degree vs someone who doesn't? The person with the degree is more likely to get the job. I don't really believe in the life experience vs college experience argument. College prepares you and trains you for that career path, thus giving you the proper experience.
But whatever floats your boat.Last edited by NoDakHusker; 09-10-2010, 11:53 PM.Huskers | Chelsea FC | Minnesota United | OmahaComment
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I'm getting a double masters (additional 3 classes) and Financial Analysis and Financial Fraud. I'm a at small school on the south side of Chicago. If I had to do it differently I would of gone to a state school instead. Just for the networking ops being greater.
All an all the mba will get me in somewhere even if it's a temp to perm situation."Good music transcends all physical limits, it's more then something you hear, it's something that you feel, when the author, experience, and passion is real" - Murs (And this is for)Comment
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I used to feel this way but I disagree. What I do feel is that "name brand" schools are useless if it's not an Ivy League school. If you went to Michigan or Boston College it's no different from going to cheap state school. Now if you're going to Yale or Harvard then it's a different story. If I have children some day I will tell them (if they don't get a scholarship) to go to a community/junior college for two years and then go to the cheapest state school possible.
Your ability to network, schmooze and "play the game" is vitally important in most fields. And of course for us men, height and looks help a ton too.
Seriously, if people like you and you're decent looking you'll be okay in a lot of situations. I was a gigantic slacker in HS and college (got in a college that was way over my head academically because of a basketball scholarship - I had the 2nd lowest SAT score in our class apparently) but I'm fine now. I didn't take anything serious until I was 23 years old but I've always been a smart kid and once my career started and I applied myself I was fine. It didn't matter that I graduated with a 2.3 GPA.
Half the kids that went to my school and graduated with a 4.0 don't have the social skills to stand out in their job.
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