Login on VMS - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

24 Sep 2000

From: Gary Hildebrand &lt;ghldbrd(a)ccp.com&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;

...
 >> interest in the VAX. But then again they have
MS's while I have an AS
>> degree, yet they seem to come to me to resolve weird problems. Could it

that shouldn't limit you.  During you time at dec some of the better VMS
people
Didn't even have degrees in computers or electronics!

the ability to discover, learn, understand and apply what you do know
is important.

...
 > Recently, I thought about going back and finishing
high school, and then
...
 > taking university courses, but at this stage of
the game, people aren't
...
 > looking at my academic record, as much as my
ability to solve their
> problems and work effectively and efficiently. 

You can still go and learn just the degree thing is a PITA.

...
 All that degree really means is that you made it
through 192 credit hours of
...
 classes with a 2.0 or better GPA.  It doesn't say
you remembered any of it.

And regurgatate what was required.  Seriously, those that do have a lot
of things presented to them and the biggest is the tools needed to
explore.

I appreciate my college time even if I never did some of the bits needed
for the degree.  It is a help with wading through network analysis and
project requiring dealing with transfer functions in loops and servo
systems.
In the end being willing to read and learn gave me breadth and depth
needed
to tackle a lot of things I'd never done before.

Allison