Comments on: Seven reasons why graduate school is outdated http://www.nerderypublic.com/archives/335 The first rule of Nerd Club is...ah hell, go ahead and talk about it. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:00:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Theo http://www.nerderypublic.com/archives/335#comment-8654 Theo Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:35:00 +0000 http://www.nerderypublic.com/archives/335#comment-8654 Whoa. Weird...I just posted about this on my blog. I'm in a different situation than you but even for me, the idea of getting anything higher than a BS in the IT industry has lost its appeal from a career perspective. I rather be busy experimenting/learning on my own on the topics that interest me. And there's also the fact that it's hard to find startups that are willing to pay for your graduate school :) Whoa. Weird…I just posted about this on my blog. I’m in a different situation than you but even for me, the idea of getting anything higher than a BS in the IT industry has lost its appeal from a career perspective. I rather be busy experimenting/learning on my own on the topics that interest me.

And there’s also the fact that it’s hard to find startups that are willing to pay for your graduate school :)

]]> By: Ken Wootton http://www.nerderypublic.com/archives/335#comment-8558 Ken Wootton Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:23:36 +0000 http://www.nerderypublic.com/archives/335#comment-8558 I'll add one for software engineering fields, one that was eluded to but not explicitly stated: the monetary rewards and expected respect just aren't there. It's very much what you've done, not what you have studied. I’ll add one for software engineering fields, one that was eluded to but not explicitly stated: the monetary rewards and expected respect just aren’t there. It’s very much what you’ve done, not what you have studied.

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