College Degree

[Mark_Yedinak]

I say go for it Steve.

I can't tell you how many times I have butted heads with HR regarding promoting people who do not have a degree. It drives me nuts when you have a qualified person who has the skills and experience to do the job but are blocked simply due to the lack of a piece of paper.

I will probably be going back for my masters soon. I have considered teaching at the college/university level to get out of the corporate world but will not be able to because I don't have a master's. You would think that 25+ years actually doing the stuff I would be teaching would count for something but in academia it doesn't seem to matter.

[SteveChandler]

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@Rodéric wrote:

Can't agree more with Jeff, networking is the key!

Many LabVIEW programmers are hired on reputation/recommandation

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Absolutely. There is a regular contributor on Lava that needed work a while back. I sent him a PM and hired him for a small (one day) contract which was when I first met him in person. I then gave his contact info to a small LabVIEW shop here. He has been working his fingers to the bone since then.

I can imagine there are a lot of people who have hired someone they knew from either the NI forums or Lava.

[Rodéric]

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Steve Chandler a écrit :

Absolutely. There is a regular contributor on Lava that needed work a while back. I sent him a PM and hired him for a small (one day) contract which was when I first met him in person. I then gave his contact info to a small LabVIEW shop here. He has been working his fingers to the bone since then.

I can imagine there are a lot of people who have hired someone they knew from either the NI forums or Lava.

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I had something like Real Life networking in mind, but of course NI forums and LAVA are more than OK to assess the skills from your posts!  Just look at the latest JKI job offer ("Actively involved in the LabVIEW community: LAVA, OpenG, NI Forums")

I bet with all of thischeering and enthusiasm you'll have to go for a college degree...