| From what I learned in the three college deplomas I got, is that everything I learned in college, I could have learned online for free. I found online all the books we studied in PDF format, I found more detailed tutorials and exercises created by recent professionals in their fields, it's all there that you require to know.
The only thing that college really supplied was the time to sit down and do it. If you have free time on your hands, this would be just as equal.
If you needed to get ahold of someone online like a teacher to get you through something you are stuck on, there are online forums and support groups which specifically focus on one paticular thing, and most who are in these groups are proffessionals who are employed in what they do..... so there is no real difference.
About having a deploma or degree to give you a better chance at employment and good pay.... that's also a load of BS, as I had high marks in my courses, I was the student representative in one college, an after hours computer lab supervisor in another one, and I basically taught the last course I took, since the instructors were in the same classes as I were a few years back, and they were slack ass compared to me in instructing.
And with all this knowlege and experience, I spent two years looking for something steady in my field.
Nobody looks at the papers you have... they want to see your work and if you can do the job. Show them this, and you have it. |