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From: al@gtx.com (0732)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,misc.jobs.misc
Subject: Re: American Programmer (What's a Ph.D. worth?)
Message-ID: <613@gtx.com>
Date: 7 Apr 88 16:03:36 GMT
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Reply-To: al@gtx.UUCP (Al Filipski)
Organization: GTX Corporation, Phoenix
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In article <2000@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
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->I can remember some years back seeing an ad in the LA Times that said,
->"Minimum five years experience.  Will consider two years graduate work
->equivalent to six months paid experience."  And from my own days as a
->headhunter, a quote from a woman who was data processing manager for a
->major cosmetics manufacturer, "Don't send me anyone with a M.S.  They
->don't know how to DO anything."
->

One of the reasons for getting an advanced degree is so you don't have to
work in the data processing division of a large cosmetics manufacturer.

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