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To: tony who wrote (7800)	1/3/2003 7:59:56 PM
From: Siddhartha Gautama	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

It seems that investing money and time toward engineering degrees is a losing proposition if you're in the USA. Wonder what will happen to all our engineering departments, IEEE and ACM ...

To: tony who wrote (7800)	1/4/2003 1:58:11 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

...these degrees require lots of hardwork That's for sure -- I advise people to think of tech education as tools to support other primary interests and talents, the idea being that technology's purpose is as support for other activities, not an end in itself, unless you've got the bug to do advanced breakthrough work. A tech career is always running fast to stay in one place. It's interesting to look at something like cisco WAN architecture, for example, the CCIE course takes 6 months, you learn all kinds of amazing things, 1/2 of which become obsolete the following couple years when when different protocols are adopted in the marketplace. That's what caused me to start tithing to the Real Estate gods years ago ! ... <VBG>