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    We've got an intelligent bunch here on CS...

    So out of curiosity, how many of you are degreed, and in what?

    I'm not degreed, but most of the techie stuff I've learned has been self-taught. Back in the late 1990's I went to a "crash course" vo-tech type school for 10 months to help me get in the industry, but after that it's pretty much been on the job and self-taught ever since.

    I'm working on a degree, but it's one of those things were I'm just getting started, and only able to do it part time, so it's gonna take something like 10 years to get my degree. Computer Science, though I program already. If it didn't take that long, I'd probably double major (CompSci/Math) if I could. I'm taking classes online, and some don't offer the "higher" mathematics courses required for a math degree online. Though I've heard I could minor in math. And after that, if it didn't take me 10 years, I'd go for a Masters degree.

    But by the time I get finished, my son will be old enough to start...

    So that's me...
    Skilled programmers aren't cheap. Cheap programmers aren't skilled.
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    I'm double degreed. I have a BS in Education and a BA in History. I started working on my Master's in Education but had to stop due to baby and money issues.
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    • #3
      No degrees, and largely self educated, though I did attend college for two years (full scholarship based on my ACT score). It's worked out fairly well, I'm a curious individual and I was 19 or so years old when widely available internet became a thing.

      My first choice for a career would have been physics or quantum mechanics, but I have severe difficulty comprehending mathematics beyond very basic algebra and geometry. It's been a lifetime issue (I didn't understand basic multiplication and division until 5th grade, my math teacher that year was incredible and helped me). I don't know if it's caused by the hardware or the software. I can follow non mathematical discussions, explanations and the like in a number of hard sciences, but you reach a point where you have to start speaking in formulas to say anything actually meaningful in most of the branches I'm interested in.
      You're only delaying the inevitable, you run at your own expense. The repo man gets paid to chase you. ~Argabarga

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      • #4
        More than 3/4 of the way through Comp Sci, but I got sick and had to stop. Never been well enough to pick it up.

        That said, my self-taught-ness includes the textbooks for a miscellany: part of a marketing degree, part of comparitive religion, some physics, some math, some counselling ...

        But nothing coherent and disciplined enough to be an actual degree.
        Seshat's self-help guide:
        1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
        2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
        3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
        4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

        "All I want is a pretty girl, a decent meal, and the right to shoot lightning at fools." - Anders, Dragon Age.

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        • #5
          BA in English, minor in German. Not terribly useful, in hindsight, but it's come in handy since I've been a bookseller...
          https://www.facebook.com/authorpatriciacorrell/

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          • #6
            I have a BA in English (creative writing) and will finish an Associates's in Pastry Arts in December. Over the next couple of years I'll also get Associates' in Culinary Arts and Restaurant Management.
            My webcomic is called Sidekick Girl. Val's job is kinda like retail, except instead of corporate's dumb policies, it's the Hero Agency, and the SC's are trying to take over the world.

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            • #7
              Bach. in Elementary Educ. and half the credits needed for a masters in Library Science.
              I also ran out of funds and never finished.
              "All I've ever learned from love was how to shoot somebody who out-drew ya"

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              • #8
                Working towards my GE for Linguistics, may change it to double major Communications with Japanese

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                • #9
                  AS in Computer Information Systems (Systems Analysis), though the bulk of my computer knowledge has been self-taught. BA in English, with a focus on Linguistics.

                  Now I work at a newspaper as a techie guy/walking dictionary, so, uh, Go Me! ^_^
                  "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                  "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                  "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                  "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                  "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                  "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                  Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                  "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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                  • #10
                    BA in Computer Science, which was great for theory, lousy for actual usefulness. My Microsoft cert was much more useful for where I ended up. 20/20 hindsight, I guess, though the college was good for learning how to learn, so to speak.

                    A lot of computer stuff was self-taught via looking stuff up, but the base grounding has been useful to build up from.
                    The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
                    "Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
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                    • #11
                      BASc in a hybrid program (elements of Electrical, Mechanical, and materials science) with a leaning toward computers.
                      Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.

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                      • #12
                        BS in Civil Engineering.
                        I'm trying to see things from your point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my keister!

                        Who is John Galt?
                        -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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                        • #13
                          BA double major, Business and Psychology. Was thinking about going into Psych as a career.

                          Then came the class where our Dept Head talked for half an hour about the fact that psychologists had the highest suicide rate in the US. So I was rethinking the career.

                          Then the following Saturday I got the news that he'd killed himself the night before.

                          Both bachelors have been useful to me, but I'm not sorry I didn't go further.

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                          • #14
                            I have a BS in Computer Information Systems and, thanks to one of the required classes in the degree program, am CompTIA A+ certified.

                            My degree program allowed me to dabble in pretty much everything from systems analysis to database management to website and video game design.
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                            "Things that fail to kill me make me level up." ~ NateWantsToBattle, Training Hard (Counting Stars parody)

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                            • #15
                              I have a B.S. in Biological Sciences, but I haven't been able to find anything with it. I thought about medical school, nursing school, radiation technology program, Masters in Genetic Counseling, and for one reason or another, none of those worked out. I finally decided that I want to work more on the business side of the medical field. I started my Master of Health Administration program yesterday and should be done with it by next summer.

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