Re:The most important difference (Score 1)

i concur. i have Fud (as in elmer) from a 'major university' (Berkeley to be exact) and the realistic side of things (after i stopped spending 18 years in school) was the realization that yes, a degree now-days cannot even get you an interview. I've tried more time then i can count to get an interview. I get nothing. i mean i've had one interview in the past 3 years (yes, l luckily have some sort of pay-the-bills thing going on). If my 2 cents even mattered .. fuck the degree, if you know your shit, start using it .. i wasted too much time thinking that credentials (essentially a 'certification') meant something. All that matters is that you can do anything that is thrown at you (by anything i mean if they hire you for a temp job running memos between this house and that house, make sure they arrive on time, even early .. or in my case .. if they ask you to build an entire automated financial structure for them, do it) .. once they see 'what' you can do and how you can do it .. a degree is moot