demondawn's Journal: Going back to school for entry-level tech jobs?

My boyfriend has a B.A. in Communications Media from a middle-of-the-road midwestern university. Now he's going back to the same university to get a Computer Science degree...so that he can apply for entry level BSD sysadmin jobs (preferably in Canada, if he can find them.) My question, as I'm not really a tech-sector person myself, is whether or not those of you in the profession think such a course of action is worth it? Considering he's working full-time (in a media job), he only has time to go to school part-time...which means a Computer Science degree would take several years. Would those years be better spent in some other tech job? Look forward to your responses.

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[demondawn]

<spacepotato> Gau: that depends.... do you currently have enough experience to get a sysadmin job?
[01:41] <spacepotato> Gau: going to school won't necessarily get you experience via classes.... but while you are in school you can do extracurricular stuff to gain experience.
[01:42] <Gau> I'm not the one looking for a job, my boyfriend is.
[01:42] <spacepotato> ahh
[01:42] <Gau> I actually don't know much about BSD, except that my Mac uses the Mach microkernel, which is based