Quote (guiltygearXT @ Aug 17 2013 11:50am)
That's why in some cases, going for a 4 year degree is not worth the money and time. Still it also depends on what field you going into. For like medical field you really have to, but for IT, you can learn most of the stuff on your own if you have the direction.
Also, most professors don't even know wtf they are talking about...They will spend the entire semester just teaching you the basics, and the whole material is about 3-4 weeks worth if you can just learn on your own.
In current job market, recruiters don't really care what degree you have, but rather what you have done. A highschool friend of mine is a good example, he graduated with a 3.1 GPA in electronic engineering and now he's getting paid about 200k working as iOS interface developer for Google. And the programming language he uses is Objective-C, which he learnt not from school, but from the previous company he worked for. (Oh and networking helps too)
Like seriously, getting a degree is a huge waste of time and money for a lot of the field, especially IT. Best way is just learn on your own and go make some kick ass projects or get certifications, those speak much more than a simple degree
my problem is that I have had literally no motivation or creative drive to do any projects of my own. That doesn't necessarily mean I am bad at those things, I just haven't had the need to build anything. I've only made a few small applications for personal use, nothing more than like 100-200 lines of code.
School helps because they give me a concise list of things to do in order and it keeps me on track.
The list goes on, really. Sure, you can make it if you never get a degree and only have certs or projects to show off. A degree still shows commitment and I will have some pretty large projects to show off when I am done (Like an example compiler or source code for a server/client software)