schizoid77
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Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
Don't knock the blue collar guys though. Getting into a good trade at 18 y.o. and having some financial discipline, the option of retirement would probably come much earlier than for most of us chumps with college edumacations. Only problem is not ending up physically beat down from your labor when you're 50.
Originally posted by: EricMartello
College is a great scam they got going on...I remember when I was in high school, the "you need college to succeed" propaganda started during my sophomore year and got more 'intense' for the remaining two years. They really shove that whole, "go to college or you'll end up pumping gas in NJ for the rest of your life" thing.
Originally posted by: BoberFett
I'm the director of IT at a medium sized company who never went to college. Started as a junior programmer and moved my way up. When I hire, I don't even look at the education portion of the resume, I simply don't care. I'm sure that's partly because I never went to college myself, but it's also because I've seen too many people get through college and are still complete morons when they come out. When I look at resumes I look at their actual job experience.
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: BoberFett
I'm the director of IT at a medium sized company who never went to college. Started as a junior programmer and moved my way up. When I hire, I don't even look at the education portion of the resume, I simply don't care. I'm sure that's partly because I never went to college myself, but it's also because I've seen too many people get through college and are still complete morons when they come out. When I look at resumes I look at their actual job experience.
and for some people the only way in, is through an education.
Originally posted by: BoberFett
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: BoberFett
I'm the director of IT at a medium sized company who never went to college. Started as a junior programmer and moved my way up. When I hire, I don't even look at the education portion of the resume, I simply don't care. I'm sure that's partly because I never went to college myself, but it's also because I've seen too many people get through college and are still complete morons when they come out. When I look at resumes I look at their actual job experience.
and for some people the only way in, is through an education.
Or, you know, put in your time at the bottom and work your way up like people have done for millennia.
Originally posted by: schizoid77
A quadruple post...what school did you go to again?
Originally posted by: Jumpem
$60k in student loans between the wife and I. Though we wouldn't have the jobs we have today without it.
Originally posted by: Jumpem
I never would have been able to afford a house on the ~$8/hr I made before college. Three years out of college we are making $120k, and have a house a nd a new car.
Originally posted by: illusion88
That's not a quadruple post.... he posted a different reply in each post. Which community college did you say you attended?
All of the engineering stuff? What about civil, chemical, or nuclear? I recall reading that main campus had some kind of nuclear reactor available to them. If we've got one of those, I sure as hell haven't seen it.Originally posted by: Acanthus
I've lived in Erie and have been on the Behrend campus
The building is a bit flashy, but also remember that they moved the ENTIRE ENGINEERING PROGRAM for all PSU schools including from PSU main and all of the satellite schools to Behrend with that new building.
They are consolidating the entire engineering school to one campus to improve the student experience, and Behrend is very reasonably priced when you compare it to Main.
I was a prospective PSU Engineering student that went business... and i used to make fun of the guys that jumped ship.
Business is easier, as someone who did both... However pay is similar and i couldnt handle the stress of Engineering regardless of my desire to build and design things. I also spoke to a lot of engineers at GE who describe their jobs as "95% bullshit and 5% actually designing things".
Edit: I gots bad grammar.
Originally posted by: Jeff7
All of the engineering stuff? What about civil, chemical, or nuclear? I recall reading that main campus had some kind of nuclear reactor available to them. If we've got one of those, I sure as hell haven't seen it.Originally posted by: Acanthus
I've lived in Erie and have been on the Behrend campus
The building is a bit flashy, but also remember that they moved the ENTIRE ENGINEERING PROGRAM for all PSU schools including from PSU main and all of the satellite schools to Behrend with that new building.
They are consolidating the entire engineering school to one campus to improve the student experience, and Behrend is very reasonably priced when you compare it to Main.
I was a prospective PSU Engineering student that went business... and i used to make fun of the guys that jumped ship.
Business is easier, as someone who did both... However pay is similar and i couldnt handle the stress of Engineering regardless of my desire to build and design things. I also spoke to a lot of engineers at GE who describe their jobs as "95% bullshit and 5% actually designing things".
Edit: I gots bad grammar.
Concerning the "95% bullshit," I guess it depends on the job. GE seems like the first place that a lot of fresh grads go because it's right there, and it's a big name. But most people are only there for a year or so before they burn-out from the place, and go elsewhere. Two guys who graduated in 2003 and 2004 were there on Friday, talking to a professor, who's now my supervisor for work-study.
They're working up in New England somewhere, and they seem to be doing a lot of real engineering work every day. One was working on some silicon wafer alignment thing, accurate to a few microns. I don't remember what the other one does. But the first one even mentioned that he still uses a few of his textbooks on a regular basis. It sounded like they'd done nicely in terms of finding good employment that is regularly using what they learned at Penn State.
But GE - "burnout" is the one word I always hear associated with working there. I have no intentions of finding out personally. I've got more of a European work ethic - work to live, not live to work.
Originally posted by: Jumpem
$60k in student loans between the wife and I. Though we wouldn't have the jobs we have today without it.
Originally posted by: BoberFett
I'm the director of IT at a medium sized company who never went to college. Started as a junior programmer and moved my way up. When I hire, I don't even look at the education portion of the resume, I simply don't care. I'm sure that's partly because I never went to college myself, but it's also because I've seen too many people get through college and are still complete morons when they come out. When I look at resumes I look at their actual job experience.
Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: Jumpem
$60k in student loans between the wife and I. Though we wouldn't have the jobs we have today without it.
$60k in loans from collage and still can't get grammar good.
WTF is RIT?
Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: Jumpem
$60k in student loans between the wife and I. Though we wouldn't have the jobs we have today without it.
$60k in loans from collage and still can't get grammar good.
WTF is RIT?
Originally posted by: blinky8225
Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: Jumpem
$60k in student loans between the wife and I. Though we wouldn't have the jobs we have today without it.
$60k in loans from collage and still can't get grammar good.
WTF is RIT?
And you can't spell college, so what?
Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: blinky8225
Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: Jumpem
$60k in student loans between the wife and I. Though we wouldn't have the jobs we have today without it.
$60k in loans from collage and still can't get grammar good.
WTF is RIT?
And you can't spell college, so what?
lol @ u
Originally posted by: blinky8225
Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: Jumpem
$60k in student loans between the wife and I. Though we wouldn't have the jobs we have today without it.
$60k in loans from collage and still can't get grammar good.
WTF is RIT?
And you can't spell college, so what?
