27 Sep
2010
27 Sep
'10
12:55 p.m.
On 9/27/10 3:27 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
"I'm highly educated. I just didn't get that education in a
school."
Our society is quick to dismiss any learning that doesn't happen
within the four walls of a school. Or worse yet, they insist that it's
impossible to learn in any other way.
This is complete bullshit, of course, but like the Emperor's new
clothes, most companies don't want to admit that it's the non-degreed
fellow in the low-paying position that keeps the whole place running,
rather than the expensive PhD (present company excluded of course!)
whose hiring resulted in a press release.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
I suppose I
like to think that nobody who isn't trained in the equipment would
be allowed to mess with it - but if they've got a cigarette dangling from
their mouth at the time then they probably deserve everything they get :-)
You might want to rephrase the first part of that. I have never been
trained in computer repair. Or in soldering, Or in using machine tools.
Or in classic computing in general. Or in....<Insert whatever you
assocaite me with :-)). Do you feel I shouldn't be allowed, say, to mess
with an HP9830?