Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 07:41:34 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Low impact, high value training? (wish me luck!!) Message-ID: <3D131EFE.A5682C37@centtech.com> References: <00b901c218e1$6229a5c0$ceec910c@daleco>
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My personal opinion on this is that experience is worth just as much as a degree, sometimes moreso in this field. As far as training goes, there are very few courses which actually teach you something worthwhile - most just want to you write the check and hand you the certificate so you can slap it on your resume. Personally, I am self taught for nearly everything I do. You will most likely learn the most from the things you enjoy doing, and most likely it will be easy to learn the things you are interested in. Pick a topic you want to learn about, get some books, find some people who are in to that, and start reading and asking questions. Just my $.02 Eric "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." wrote: > > I'm interested in some computer training of some > sort. I'm trying to just make a bit more $$ than > I have been in other fields. However, the last time > I was in a classroom as a students when the > topic was computers was in the 1970s. (Anyone > remember Apple's IIe and PRODOS? I have > taught myself enough to run various OSes > with some success and am building up a > small service/consulting business in this > backwater part of the world. For the most part > my customers are satisfied, and my competitors > haven't yet comie to beat me up. My question is, > is any training out there worth much, short of > another degree? Here's something that worries me: > > I visited a customer this week for several hours. > She had a M$ system that runs like a<n> (original) > 1939 Packard on diesel with half the valves stuck... > you get the idea ... :-) Obviously she's no good at > tweaking a system. > > She has a professional photography business, but > claims to have university/college training in computers, > including programming in C++. She said she made > As & Bs (high marks, for those familiar with other > terminology...). > > She wants me to build her another system, so I > quoted several configurations ... As I was fighting > with her Windoze, she came in, pointed to the > field on the quote form that said "Processor type > and speed" and asked, "What is this talking about?" > > If I can learn more in a few years of practical > experience and late night www-surfing than she > can in college courses, what's the point of training? > I'm not knocking anyone with a CS degree of any > type (she obviously doesn't have one....) I just > don't think that attending a course or two here > in SW Missouri is going to help a lot. Any > thoughts? > > TIA, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology He who laughs last didn't get the joke. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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