Are top LACs considered Equal to Top Universities

circuitrider
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 20:37:15 +0000

@Zinhead

The local IT people either self-learned or attended technical schools. Think of people at the level of Best Buy’s Greek Squad. Their primary job was setting up new computers, maintaining a network, removing viruses from computers, etc. etc. One does not need a CS degree for that

Maybe that’s true in the Midwest. But, in New York, someone fitting that job description would need a bachelor’s degree and I’m thinking most of them are programmers who can’t find jobs. They are as ubiquitous as English majors.

The best one started out as an admin, and learned how to setup and maintain networks and computers on her own. Whenever corporate IT culled the local workforce, local management would shift her to the administrative side. Whenever corporate IT’s changes failed, local management shifted her back into IT.

So… she wasn’t an engineer, an MBA, an accountant, an actuary or a management consultant and still managed to hold on to her job by learning to do something new. Sounds like the essence of a liberal arts major.