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RE: Most Impt. Skill to Learn in Tech Comm Program?
Subject:RE: Most Impt. Skill to Learn in Tech Comm Program? From:"Maggie Secara" <maggiros2 -at- home -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:48:48 -0700
Does it count if I worked a number of crappy jobs *while* I was in college?
Nothing I did in the real world was training for a career either.
Maggie Secara
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> Maggie Secara said:
> > Off hand, I'd say Liberal Arts majors were looking for an education, not
> > vocational training.
>
> But which are employers looking for, especially in these tight economic times?
>
> Perhaps everybody should spend a few years in the "real" world doing
> crappy jobs before they enter college.
>
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