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From: gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,misc.jobs.misc
Subject: Re: American Programmer (What's a Ph.D. worth?)
Message-ID: <791@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 18:24:56 GMT
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In article <613@gtx.com> al@gtx.UUCP (Al Filipski) writes:
}In article <2000@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
}->
}->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.

Yeah, but people -- even PhD's -- want the money, and business is where
most of it is, because that's where most of it comes from.  I think this
series of postings is fundamentally about whether advanced degrees are
worth their high cost.  The answer being given seems obvious.