[Coco] Re: Thoughts about going back to school full time.
Richard E. Crislip
rcrislip at neo.rr.com
Wed Dec 7 11:22:33 EST 2005
Hello Jim
I know I'm jumping in here, but I have elected to return to school to get my
bachelor degree at 58yrs because when I graduate, I want to be able to teach
in the two year colleges that are springing up every where. I was doing that
until the accreditation team came through. They pointed out that in Ohio,
the teacher had to have bachelors degree to teach the MS-Office suite
because they are deemed as being business courses. My 37 years experience
and associate degree in programming didn't mean a thing 8-/. So if you think
you may want to teach, then by all means get the degree. If you plan to
switch jobs, I agree with James, unless you have a sure thing. I hope I'm
replying to the correct person 8-}.
On 12/05/2005, Jim Cox wrote:
> James:
>
> First off thanks for the reply, you made some really good
> points. Secondly, I think I have asked a similar question
> a while back. Oh well, I guess I'm showing my age.
>
> I thought that the BSET may be a way to move into an
> engineering tech position. Maybe that's not the way to go
> then. For reason's I won't go into, I am looking at
> changing jobs, so your comment about getting the BSET not
> being a good decission is making me think about some other
> options.
>
> One option is to take advantage of the resources I have
> (CoCo, 6809 trainer, Ethernut, etc...) and use those to
> refresh and improve my skill set. It's cheaper, and more
> fun. Some things like math and C I can also do on my own.
>
> Thanks again for the input.
>
> Jim
>
> On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 23:02:29 -0500
> jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>> Jim
>>
>> In the current climate I would state this based on
>>personal
>> experience. IF one is over 50 yrs of age and
>>contemplating a BSEE
>> or even a BSET to move and gain advancement with another
>> company is not a good decission. If you are doing it to
>>advance
>> within the company you are working at then by all means
>>go for it.
>>
>> Right now if there are two engineers equally matched in
>>skills, one
>> over 50yrs old and the other say 35 yrs old, the younger
>>enginner
>> will win out. Simply because of cost of benefits. To
>>gain
>> advancement with in the company you work for is okay. To
>>gain the
>> education to move on to another company and if you ar
>>older than
>> 50yrs old will be a mistake.
>>
>> There is not supposed to be age descrimination in
>>hiring, but in a
>> quiet way there is. Proving it is far more difficult
>>than it is worth the
>> time and effort.
>>
>> In some circles the BSET is not as prefered as the BSEE
>>is.
>> Reasoning is the BSET has less math requirements. A BSEE
>>will
>> have 23 semester hours of mathematics in a 128 hour
>>degree
>> program. There are two courses that are not part of the
>>BSET that
>> are apart of the BSEE program. These are:
>>
>> 1) Analysis of Linear Systems
>> 2) ElectroMagnetic Fields and Waves.
>>
>> Linear Systems is the main course that separates techs
>>from
>> enegineers. Heavy in theory and in math. Fields in Waves
>>is to
>> some a brutal course as it requires visualization of
>>three
>> deminsional concepts and mathematics. I just loved those
>>triple
>> spherical integrals and gradients. Not to leave out
>>Maxwell's
>> Equations either.
>>
>> just my opinion
>>
>> james
>>
>
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