College for IT? Puh-lease! (Score 1)

It is kind of a mystery to me why anyone would go to college for a carreer in IT when there are so many certifications available. Compare these two senarios: a. High Scool Graduate goes to work for a help desk. Gets a year of experience. Gets a MCSA, MCDST and a novel or a linux certificate. Gets a job as an assistant sys admin and puts in a couple of years there. He is a qualified to apply for a full sys admin job and he has some money in the bank. b. High School Graduate goes to college and gets a CS degree. He has $50,000 debt and no work experience. He is desperate for money and I don't think that they will be hired as a sys admin so ... he goes to work at a helpdesk. Now if you actually want to go into Management or Business administration of IT departments then yes you would need college but then you are not going into the IT field. Management is not a truly geek field of course.