I've just recently started reading this thread, I have not read all of the responses.
I am curious though, with this discussion, if people have seen what I did when I last looked for a job. While I was last looking for a job, after being laid off from the place I worked at for 8 years, it seemed to me that even though I had 11+ years of experience they ALWAYS went with someone with a degree over myself who doesn't have one. It was extremely frustrating. I really hate spending a large fortune on a degree just to have a "leg up" when searching for a job when I have so many years of "real world" experience. Why as a hiring manager would you choose someone with a piece of paper that says they spent a ton of money on learning something, vs someone who has spent a TON of time learning on their own? _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
