Is College Worth It?

[GaryWary]

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YOu seem to hate me bro but heres some advice. If you want to make big money nowadays you have to sell something. Sales=Money

Professions you get from college unless your talking doctor or lawyer ain't gonna make you rich.

Outgoing personality is much more important. Sales, gotta sell something to make money.

There is truth to what you are saying. Sales professionals can earn huge amounts.. usually consisting of a fairly low/average basic salary plus the commission. So you gotta be good at Sales and have something worth selling for it to work out well for you...

IT professionals are in great demand. If you get an IT or related degree and somne experience in ERP or CRM - you can make shitloads...

As for Golfer - yeah go fi being a Navy Seal. You should finish the schooling you have started though and do the best you can. It is always helpful to have qualifications. As for wether I can remember anything of my studies.. dude, I doubt I could perform simple calculus now.. I have forgotten it all... and I got a PhD in engineering..... I remember the stuff that matters though. Like supply chain stuff, IT stuff, business stuff...

 

[GaryWary]

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There is truth to what you are saying. Sales professionals can earn huge amounts.. usually consisting of a fairly low/average basic salary plus the commission. So you gotta be good at Sales and have something worth selling for it to work out well for you (i.e. make loadsa commission)...

IT professionals are in great demand. If you get an IT or related degree and somne experience in ERP or CRM - you can make shitloads...

As for Golfer - yeah go for being a Navy Seal. You should finish the schooling you have started though and do the very best you can. It is always helpful to have qualifications. As for whether I can remember anything of my studies.. dude, I doubt I could perform simple calculus now.. I have forgotten it all... and I got a PhD in engineering..... I remember the stuff that matters TO ME getting the job I want though, like supply chain stuff, IT stuff, business stuff...

 

[WODIN]

Quadratic Equations!!!!!

Dear Lord I just finished a bunch of them!!! Differentiate that!

 

[Golfer18--old]

Holy shit, you guys (buddy and warik) should chat on MSN. LOL, you two have been going at it all night. I love it.

 

[GaryWary]

its not that expensive. usually it runs about $4k a year if you are doing 30 credit hours a year. that is only $330 a month, the price of a car loan, or minor mortgage. i guess because you don't have time to work that that makes it expensive but overall college isn't that expensive. its not the monster people make it out to be at least.

I ran debts up of 20k UK pounds. It might be true that this figure works out to be a minor mortgage or car loan equivalent, but what you are not figuring in this equation is what happens when you do want to get a mortgage or car loan but CANNOT because your debts are still too large to deal with. To repay 20k over a 5 year period is a lot of fucking money.

 

[Puc]

Well, what would be your first response if I laughed at you because I could write a recursive algorithm to search a list of 5,000,000,000 names and find the name I'm looking for after only a handful of checks and you couldn't?

warik, i wish i could claim even this had use

been programming for 3 years now and I have never had to write a search or sort algorithm.

success in coding is had by using other peoples previously written shit so that you can get it done faster... I don't like doing it that way (i am more of a theoretician), but that is the way it works.

they should start teaching proper techniques to search Google and Tek-tips.com, now that would be useful...

 

[Warik]

Puc,

I know. They spend weeks talking about the importance of the binary seach and the merge sort algorithms in class. Why? They are all ready written. No one is going to say "oh, write a mergesort so we can see how good of a programmer you are." They're gonna say: "go cut and paste a good sorting algorithm so we can get the important shit done." They need to teach how to develop new algorithms to solve problems rather than teaching the old algorithms that are readily available anywhere.

I've never had to write a search or sort algorithm in my job either... the functions are build in, and its 100x easier if it's in an SQL query. Got to love the "ORDER BY" clause.

-Warik