[Courses] [Careers] Carla the Country Geek

[Julie Sloan]

||svaksha|| wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:20:03 -0800, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:
> 
>>Degrees v. free-style
>>http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1999/0700/carla9907.html
>>"There will forever be strife between people who favor structured education,
>>degrees, certifications, licenses, and the like, and them awful mavericks who
>>insist on doing things their own way, in their own time; between those who
>>pursue a profession for money and prestige, and those who do it because they
>>love it."
> 
> 
> Yes that point about being impossible to be hired without a degree in
> CS is true (for all countries). Imho, there is a larger bias against
> self-taught people

just a little OT:  my husband is a fiction writer; has two books 
published with a small literary press, and part of his intro reads: 
"...does not have and is not seeking an MFA..."  which always is good 
for a laugh.

It's practically impossible to get recognition from the big publishing 
houses without being connected with some University's Master of Fine 
Arts program.  My point is, this isn't a CS-specific problem, and for 
sure not gender-specific.

Julie