[NTLUG:Discuss] re: degree required - the "Rat Race"

[al]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
  > If you have the initiative to start your own business, develop your own
> software or do something else that sells yourself, you don't need
> anything else.

I did consulting on my own for most of 2003 and saturated my market with 
linux office conversions, now they don't need my help cuz things dont 
break any more. So, I moved to Nashville to start over. I need to get 
some cash flow before I can entreprenuerialize here. Working for someone 
else is the only way I can see achieving that now.

> 
> With a BS in Engineering, and over 40 IT certifications passed in less
> than 17 months at enormous personal expense (despite $0 spent on
> training), I'm done with the technology "Rat Race."  I've moved to
> secondary education and have _never_ looked back.
> 
> Other than the fact that when I'm done with my MA in Education next
> summer, I'm going to look into maybe teaching at the technical/community
> college level.
> 

You seem to have alot of degrees/certs to be intimating they aren't 
needed. ;')
Would you have the same opinion if you had None?
Or, would you be putting in over-qualified apps at Burger King like me?

Thank You,
./aal


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