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Originally Posted by quasi
The old adage is so true, it's all about who you know not what you know. You can have all the schooling you want but if you can't get your foot in the door good luck getting anywhere. Education is a good thing but building a network is so much more important to succeeding IMO. You can be that guy who goes to school and keeps his head in the books with no job and no life experience but when you finish you're more then likely going to be on the outside looking in.
Everyone I know works somewhere where they had an in. I got my job because of contacts I made, no chance in hell I would have got it if I didn't I was under qualified IMO. I faked it till I made it and now I can do the job well but that first 3-4 months was like what the fuck did I get myself into.
Education is great when it compliments something else but on its own it's really not that valuable. I went to University and graduated but what I do now has nothing to do with what I went to school for.
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I had a job lined up after grad and my start date was the first of the month immediately following my finals. If I hadn't networked while I was still in school I would still be unemployed right now..