[Courses] [Careers] Carla the Country Geek

[Julie Sloan]

Jon Drews wrote:
> <juliesloan at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>||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

I clipped this for my partner.  It sounds like something he'd say.

> In a graduate chem course, I had a textbook that had over 550 mistakes
 > in it.

I ran into the same thing with a two-inch thick textbook when I was in 
an electrical apprenticeship program.

> In the end, you really teach yourself.

That's one of life's great truths  :)

> 
>>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.
> 
>  I guess O'Reilly isn't that way though? I think No Starch Press has
> some good titles and they aren't a fan of credentialism.

I mean mainstream fiction, mostly.  Houses like Dell, Algonquin, Warner, 
Simon & Schuster, Delacorte.  If you're not Steven King or Tom Clancy, 
you're not getting in.  :-\

Sorry, this really has gone OT.  I'll quit now.
Julie


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