reyn@trsvax.UUCP (01/19/89)
While I agree with your sense of injustice, surely this isn't the first time you've been subjected to a put doen by the "Degreed Only" club. I happen to have been lucky enough to be poor enough to get reaaly great financial aid (from Rice University). This was of course pre-Reagan student loan time, but back to the point, I have degrees out the wazoo, and these degrees have helped me to get my foot in the door at places I've wanted to work. I have worked with many extremely talented non-degreed engineers, and many totally worthless degreed engineers (I have sometimes been included in the latter category), so I know that experience is generally more valuable than paper. But the fact remains, many companies will not even interview non-degreed people, and that number of companies is definitely growing rather than diminishing. So for those of you out there still in school, STAY THERE!!!! Your professors may be worthless, and the theoretical B.S. may be totally off in left field, and you might learn alot more in industry, BUT REMEMBER, that little piece of paper will keep your options open, and someday you might want to exercise that option. Juan