You Can Learn While You Earn.

The great divide between one's collegiate career and their post graduate vocation has been getting greater and greater, at least among the people I know.

The most obvious example is myself, a graduate of a private degree-granting institution, set forth into the real world with a B.A. in Anthropology (or as one jaded Anthro major once called it: Preunemployment) only to find myself an executive assistant for an editorial website.

Years later, as a slave to the web, doing one thing or another without any relation to my "training", I am finding more and more people just like me.

I didn't think of college as a trade school, and besides your engineering, bio and/or law folks, no one else I knew did/does either. So why aren't those leaving high school through those in college reminded of that simple fact: College is not a vocational school. (Real Player Required)

I'm curious how many of you are in the field you studied, assuming you chose to go to college. Many of the programmers I know didn't go, either that or they didn't graduate. They are some of the best skilled, most well read, witty people I know. With or without a degree, you can't tell the difference in any work. I'm sure this applies outside the programming world.

Since college was not the be-all end-all our guidance counselors had made it out to be, we can thusly conclude that the future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.

Q.E.D.

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