Re: Do you need a degree?

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After fall 1985, I dropped out of working halfheartedly on a B.A. in History
at U of Texas at Austin. now I've applied to U. of South Carolina for
admission as a transfer student seeking a B.S. in Computer Science.  I'm
foolish enough to think I *might* wanna write code, but mainly it's what
economist Lester Thurow calls "credentialism."  I know that I'll have fewer
doors automatically closed to me for lack of a baccalaureate.

My fantasy is to attend Carnegie-Mellon to do their Master's program in
technical communication, but I doubt my wife would be able to find a teaching
job close enough to Pittsburgh to make that a practical possibility.

My point (and I do have one) is that, up to now, I've made a
very-nice-living-as-a-TW-thank-you despite being a dropout with only an
Associate's in Arts and Science (i.e., nothing in particular) from a
community college to show for five and a half years of academic floundering.
 Landing the first job -- finding an employer willing to take a chance on me
-- was the hard part; from there on, it's been relatively easy to find TW
employment, and Columbia, SC is not exactly Silicon Valley East.

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