<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">If I may stop and pick a nit: <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">such a feat is more possible for most people adrian</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Now is 'possible' the same as 'probable'? I think of possible as being of two sorts: possible and impossible and nothing in between, so you can't get more or less possible the way you can get probable and improbable - a dichotomy versus a continuous variable, that is. bill w</div><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 12:58 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 10:45 AM Hermes Trismegistus via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Of course some career paths require a degree such as engineering or medicine. I have a hard time imagining a company hiring someone who claims to be a self-taught engineer or doctor. An autodidact engineer can of course be superior to a university educated counterpart, but such a situation is difficult to prove. Degrees at least guarantee some baseline level of competence for hiring managers to consider. That said, I still wish I would have forgone university as it has not been very beneficial to me.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If learning in university isn't that worthwhile, then just focus on getting the degree ASAP. Take extra credit courses during the summer. Learn the basics of certain things (such as algebra & calculus) online in a matter of days, then use that to test out of prerequisite courses (being able to pass the final exam without having taken the course, does convince some faculty that there's no need for you to take the course), shaving entire academic quarters or semesters off your schedule.</div><div><br></div><div>I got a BS in 3 years and a MS in 1 further year. Having these degrees in an engineering field (Computer Science in my case) was quite useful in my early career, and continues to give me some useful cred these days. Back in the '90s, I pulled it off by my own prowess - but these days, such a feat is more possible for most people.</div></div></div>
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