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On Thursday 01 May 2003 6:30 pm, Paul Weaver wrote:
> My big project is all finished. It sucks, big time, but to be honest I dont
> give a fsck. I've got one XML project to do (easy and quite interesting),
> and a few exams. I've had enough of my course, enough of education, enough
> of being poor. Uni is great, the course is pointless though - the only jobs
> around for people with no experience are managment of {macdonalds, whsmiths
> etc}. Should have left school at 16, have much better chances of getting a
> job in the next 11 weeks 3 days.
>
> Uni, on the other hand, is an experience everyone should have.
I'm going to get the best of both worlds - I've got a 12-month programming
contract lined up with QinetiQ for my gap year, then I'm hoping to go (exam
results permitting!) to the University of Kent to a Computer Science BSc,
quite possibly with a year in industry between years two and three. It
should help ease my forthcoming financial troubles, too!
As you say, I get the impression that real hands-on experience is pretty
valuable, alongside academic qualifications, so I'd rather get some
experience now, whilst I can still get help finding work from the Year in
Industry scheme.
Plus hopefully I will become a 1337 coder and contribute to some Open Source
software projects pretty soon! 8-)
Jon
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