[lopsa-discuss] College degrees not required for a career in system administration

2016-12-15 Thread Bill Bogstad
http://qz.com/858194/ibm-employees-without-college-education/ An interesting article on how you don't need a college degree to work for IBM. It quotes BLS statistics that 47% of Network and computer systems administrators don't have four year college degrees. Food for thought? Bill Bogstad

Re: [lopsa-discuss] College degrees not required for a career in system administration

2016-12-15 Thread Cesar Covarrubias
(Full disclosure, I haven't read the article yet.) I think it depends on the company culture. Most companies I've applied to / worked for don't care what you have a degree in, as long as you have a degree. I have a bachelors degree in history, and that doesn't seem to bother them. Knowing what we

Re: [lopsa-discuss] College degrees not required for a career in system administration

2016-12-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- > boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Bill Bogstad > > http://qz.com/858194/ibm-employees-without-college-education/ > > An interesting article on how you don't need a college degree to work > for IBM. It quotes BLS statistics that 47% o

Re: [lopsa-discuss] College degrees not required for a career in system administration

2016-12-15 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
I just turned 44 and I have a GED with some Community College and going on 22 years experience. I have always thought of myself as a bad example ("Do as I say, not as I do.") when it comes to higher education. But it does look like times are changing. I have seen that a degree (any degree)