2 Oct
2011
2 Oct
'11
3:05 p.m.
On Sun, 2 Oct 2011, Tony Duell wrote:
No, just my own personal experiences of too much time in academia.
They have let me get past the HR screening, in order to be considered,
for things in which my expertise did NOT come from the college experience.
PhD is Piled
Higher and Deeper
Are you (and others) claiming a strong negative correlation
between
having academic qualifcations and being clueful? My experience suggests there's almost no
correlation at all, if there is
, it's slightly positive.
It asserts tenacity.
Several of my
degrees have had unexpected very powerful impact on
employment in ways that I had never intended when I was in college.
I see....
I learnt a lot of things when getting my palindromic
initials. Not to do
with particle physics eitehr (the group I was working in). Things like
how to strip down and rebuild a Canon CX printer. How to overhual a line
printer. How to design with ECL. How to get high-speed op-amps not to
turn into oscillators. How to fix SMPSUs. Etc...
mostly irrelevant, or even orthogonal to what they were trying to teach
you
Going to college will not prevent you from learning, and sometimes
provides unconnected opportunities.