Mary Gardiner wrote: > While this may be true for the original poster, who given that they are > posting to the SLUG newsgroup at all almost certainly has more skills > than I did when I started uni, I don't regret going to uni for the > following reasons: > * I had no "IT skills" to speak of when I left high school and would > * In particular, I had no programming skills and would now most likely > * I wanted other skills that 3 years experience was unlikely to give me > * It is likely that I would still be living in my parent's home town if > * There are a lot of IT things I would have never used, or used much > * I'm at least considering a research career, for which an
uni helps you to acquire the ability to reason and research. with that you can progress into field of endeavour. _____________________________________________ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Pty Limited I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the president of American Telephone and Telegraph Company. -- Alan Turing on the possibilities of a thinking machine, 1943. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug