- Jan 29, 2006
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I've been working in the high tech industry for about 5 years now and the places that I've worked for includes IBM, ATI and AMD. ATI was by far my longest tenure that lasted 2 years - over a good half of my entire university education.
At all of these companies, I asked my fellow co-workers of different ranks and positions about their opinion in regards to which EXPERIENCE they prefer better - school or work.
Almost all of the replies i received is that they like work much more better than school. ALthough school has its upsides, like the friends you meet, but most of them hated the academic part, where the courses is just "teach to test and screw you over" with no real life use. Of course, learning is an essential part of life but the school environment offers little incentive to learn where in certain courses, no matter how hard you work, you will still end up with a C or D.
A few of them are bitter about how certain courses and prof are set to deliberately screw you from day one so that people have to retake it and generate more $$ for the department.
In addition, at school you put in all of your time in a project or assignment and still end up with a crappy mark becuase the prof said "no questions allowed" or somewhere along that. At work, when you have a challenging projects, managers and fellow co-workers are there to help you exceed. Plus, there is much more intrinsic motivation when you know the project you do actually makes a difference to the organization you work for. For school, its just to hand in to the equally bitter TAs who are there to screw you even more.
I gotta agree with them, after working at these places, I found that work consistently offers a much better experience than school.
Now, mind you, the people I asked are not bitter people who failed out of school and blame the world. They just gave me a good comparison between school and work. Oh, I asked my co-workers about this commonly said phrase "once you get out of school, you will miss it". THey said it is BS and lame excuse for those who can't find a good job to comfort themselves haha
At all of these companies, I asked my fellow co-workers of different ranks and positions about their opinion in regards to which EXPERIENCE they prefer better - school or work.
Almost all of the replies i received is that they like work much more better than school. ALthough school has its upsides, like the friends you meet, but most of them hated the academic part, where the courses is just "teach to test and screw you over" with no real life use. Of course, learning is an essential part of life but the school environment offers little incentive to learn where in certain courses, no matter how hard you work, you will still end up with a C or D.
A few of them are bitter about how certain courses and prof are set to deliberately screw you from day one so that people have to retake it and generate more $$ for the department.
In addition, at school you put in all of your time in a project or assignment and still end up with a crappy mark becuase the prof said "no questions allowed" or somewhere along that. At work, when you have a challenging projects, managers and fellow co-workers are there to help you exceed. Plus, there is much more intrinsic motivation when you know the project you do actually makes a difference to the organization you work for. For school, its just to hand in to the equally bitter TAs who are there to screw you even more.
I gotta agree with them, after working at these places, I found that work consistently offers a much better experience than school.
Now, mind you, the people I asked are not bitter people who failed out of school and blame the world. They just gave me a good comparison between school and work. Oh, I asked my co-workers about this commonly said phrase "once you get out of school, you will miss it". THey said it is BS and lame excuse for those who can't find a good job to comfort themselves haha
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