Quote Originally Posted by Hachiman View Post
. . . I guess having a degree (or two) isn't the 'guarantee' of a better job that universities tend to imply. . . .
True, a degree is not a guarantee, but it is a hunting license and it can be a help in retaining a job once you have it.

In my salad days I was first an electronics technician, then an electronics engineer, and then a software engineer. The first of my programs that worked properly I wrote in 1964, so I was a software engineer before that name was coined. Since I retired in 1994 I have written no code but a few BASH scripts, so I am now hopelessly behind the state of the art except for one fact: because FORTRAN will never die, we who can write FORTRAN in any language will never cease to be functional.

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