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Subject:Degrees From:"Gottlieb, Lynn" <Lynn -dot- Gottlieb -at- PSS -dot- BOEING -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 8 Dec 1998 10:24:46 -0800
BS in Technical Communications (College of Engineering), University of
Washington.
On the "degree needed" side of this post, here's my .02. I had over 15
years as a programmer and a manager (but no degree) when my job disappeared
in 1989 so I figured I'd have no problem getting another job. Wrong. Maybe
it's just the Puget Sound labor market but no one would look at me.
I ended up taking a job at UW so I could go back to school; I finished last
year and was hired by Boeing as a contractor a month before I graduated.
I've been an employee for over a year.
