27 Sep
2010
27 Sep
'10
2:07 p.m.
Tell me about
it. It really annoys me. The powers-that-be need to realise
that there are people who ahve taught themselves things to a very high
level, and are quite capable of applying that knowledge...
Not many businesspeople understand this. Keep in mind, though, that
most management types think of (for example) computer programmers as
"glorified typists" (actual quote from upper-level manager), and often think of any I.T. work as "mind-numbing digital
toil" (actual quote from
BusinessWeek Magazine article, around 2003). What we do is to be
"trained", not "understood" or "mastered", and we are all
interchangeable (barely-) skilled laborers.
And we wonder why this world is in a right old mess...
In other words, the people in control have NO CLUE, and society is
circling the drain as a result.
Ahm you said much the same thing.
ACtually, I
could argue that a Ph.D. at least the way I, and my parents,
did it involves a lot of self-teaching, and a lot of hands-on work. Maybe
some don't, though ;-(
Many don't. I've worked with a few.