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Originally Posted by Tsar
I have a pretty good understanding of what I studied, but I suspect that you were talking about GP, not me. As I already pointed out, one does not need a degree to be successful; I'm sure some idiot will bring up Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Mike Dell, Steve Jobs, and bunch more. However, the reality (statistics) for most people without a degree is not that, it's a "9-5" making ~60ish k a year, if that. To some it's great, to some it's not.
As far as "re-training" goes, I find that point worthless. When I get a job I want, I will be send into an academy where I will be taught how to engage multiple targets at the same time, high speed evasion and all that stuff one can NOT learn in too many places. Do you suggest that we just throw new hires under fire and see what happens? That's idiotic, training is a necessity no matter who you hire. In fact if I get hired and a special forces guys from the army gets hired we will undergo the same training... No exceptions. I'm not exactly sure what you do, but I hope you weren't applying your point to everybody.
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Perhaps I was unclear.
In certain jobs you cannot learn the skills you need elsewhere. I think it's foolish and illogical to think that you are supposed to know EVERYTHING when you graduate college regardless of degree.
But in many (engineering, computer programming, and probably a bunch more) the new hire has to
re-learn the basics of what they are supposed to know. Example: I have had Computer Science graduates fail the "entrance test" I decided to implement because they cannot execute a simple JOIN statement in SQL. A few of them had 3.25+ GPAs in their major. I've also had guys that don't know what recursion is. That to me is really really bad. And I'm not alone. I talk to guys I know in many other fields who feel the same way.
It's one thing if you don't know intermediate or advanced topics. Or they can't/don't teach you what you need to know (I guess that's your case?). It is something completely different when people are given a degree and a nice GPA without an understanding of some of the fundamental topics of their field of study. That pisses me off. Especially when hiring somebody is a gamble, and their college performance may be your only clue.