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Subject:Re: Do you need a degree? From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:02:03 -0700
At 01:01 PM 6/23/97 -0700, Lynn Gold wrote:
>What the degree DID do for me is make it MUCH easier to get a job, and get
>me lots more money for doing the same work.
>
Now there's a lesson in life. I remember being paid three times my wage
*after* I received my PhD to teach the same courses I had taught as a
graduate assistant at the University of Florida.
--Wayne
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