RE: Student-Degree valuable or not?

["Brian Graybeal" <bgraybeal () comcast net>]

Another College to look into, that offers Computer Science, Programming,
Hardware Engineering all for working adults, (Online and Books, no class
time) is www.grantham.edu  

They offer an awesome program for Military and Veterans!


Brian
Firefly Digital Media
www.fireflydigitalmedia.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Seyberth Allan R Contr AFRL/VSIO
[mailto:allan.seyberth () kirtland af mil] 
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 2:06 PM
To: Security-Basics
Subject: RE: Student-Degree valuable or not?


My $0.02, as someone in a similar situation as yours.

The knowledge gained during the coursework itself is less valuable than
hands-on up to date experience.

But

As was said earlier, that degree is a checkbox for HR departments.
Without it your resume will never make it past the first weeding down.

For better or worse, I'm in the University of Phoenix IT plan. . . (the
local university hates working adults.)





-----Original Message-----
From: DANIEL SIMPSON [mailto:DANSIMPS () uat edu] 
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 5:23 PM
To: Security-Basics
Subject: Student-Degree valuable or not?


Hey,


I just retired from a 4 year stint in Silicon Valley where I was a
System Administrator/Technical Engineer for a couple start-ups. I
started getting more and more into Information Security and finally
decided to quit my boring job and move to Arizona to enter a 4 year
program at a private university. I'm getting my B.S in software
engineering with an emphasis on security. How valuable will this degree
be and what are the forecasts for the job market in this field in about
4 years. The program is REALLY expensive and I cashed out all my
investments/savings to pay for it (roughly 10k a year). I might even go
to law school afterwards. Is this degree worth the estimated 40-50k? I'm
22 btw, my dream is to work for Microsoft or Goggle for a couple years
and start my own security firm.


Any suggestions would be awesome.

Dann

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Allan Seyberth  

Unisys 
AFRL-VSIO WGM Manager
(505) 853-3842 
Allan.Seyberth () kirtland af mil


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