On Saturday, January 21, 2012 19:14:41 Paulo Pinto wrote: > Am 21.01.2012 04:48, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe: > > On Saturday, 21 January 2012 at 03:43:50 UTC, Caligo wrote: > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZtX32sKVE > > > > Oh my, don't get me started on college! > > > > I'm so happy I dropped out of that waste. > > I guess this is a specific USA issue. > > In Europe you will hardly get a programming job as developer if > you don't have a degree in Computer Science, Electronic, Physics > or Mathematic applied to computation, just to name a few of the > common degrees. > > At least if you are looking for a company job. In case you would be > starting your own company then it is a total different matter.
I think that that's frequently the case in the US as well, but it's not impossible to get a job as long as you have decent programming skills - especially in a good economy (which wouldnt' be right now) - even if you don't have a colleg education. And once you have a decent amount of job experience under your belt, it'll matter a lot less. But there are definitely jobs that will be closed to you if you don't have a degree - especially early in your career. I have at least one co-worker who's never gone to college and whose an extremely good programmer and has been at it for 10 - 15 years now. But whether that route works and/or is a good idea depends on a lot of factors. You _will_ do better getting a job if you have a college degree, but it might be more economical to skip out on college if you can get a reasonable programming skillset on your own and manage to find work. - Jonathan M Davis
