'Time Bomb'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
What is your job, Kalshane?
I'd feel so naked without my CS degree or equivalent programming skills (because, really, in the 80s I could have gotten decent work straight out of HS and ended up where I am. But it'd be on the job experience of a similar sort, though it'd eventually limit my promotability or ability to compete).
Slightly relatedly, I'm taken aback by how many people I encounter these days in IT who don't have CS degrees, and who can't program.
t raises hand
I'm well aware that I suck. I haven't gone for a CS degree yet simply because I don't learn the way most CS departments teach, and I suspect attempting a degree would be a frustrating and ultimately pointless exercise.
I need lunch. Hmm, lunch...
I think I may be the only person on the IT staff who isn't a developer with a CS degree. I'm certainly the only one with an MS in CS.
Shrift -- you're in sysadmin? And Tom -- what's your job description?
Most of what I do is programming database stuff. I have no CS degree. I've had two programming courses: BASIC in high school, and Fortran in college.
Unix System Administrator
PC support. Every once in awhile we'll get a new program in that is specific to a department rather than hospital-wide (and thus not something supported by the Sys Admins, though they'll help out if the can) that won't work right and it'd be nice to have a better understanding of how software works and how to "fix" it, but for my normal day to day job it doesn't matter.
But there are times I wish I had a CS degree....
All I can say is that law schools have equal numbers of men and women because of the notoriously family-friendly working conditions of papa law.
But there are times I wish I had a CS degree....
Same here. Though it'd mostly be something to point at and go "See this, pay me more."