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rfult001

famosbrown wrote:

Good luck with everything. After you are done with the 4 year degree, check out a few websites of many companies and government agencies to check out there college graduate entry level programs that usually bring you in for development and an automatic sliding salary during the development years. Below are just a couple, but there are thousands out there as more companies are trying to recruit talented college graduates.

http://www.microsoft.com/college/ft_itops.mspx

http://www.dfas.mil/careers/college.html

http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac40/univ/index.html

itdaddy

hypersonic wrote:

And if you are going to do a Degree, may I reccommend doing a BEng/MEng. These Degrees are accredited by an Engineering association (IET/IEEE/IMechE) and are widely recognised as being superior to their BSc counterparts.

dude I disagree with you..what does aeronautic engineering have to do with IT- nothing
the computer engineering part does a little bit.but like you said you knew 5 percent networking.
so you got our job based off or how difficult your fields were.

To be honest..I have seen guys work for companies who had no engineering degree at all
an got the job because they were a genius at it but in today's world you need something.

It is all based off of the employer and what the job entails...shoot for your Certs get experience and try to get some sort of science BS degree. It doesnt have to be engineering.
I have taken engineering calc I and calc II in my BS computer science degree (engineering) and
i have never ever used calc in my networking engineering job-Never so not everyone thinks like that..some employers will say you are over qualified and wont higher cause of your high degree in engineering...I say work your butt off get a good science BS degree and work your art in IT
whether that me MCSE or Cisco..

I wish I could go to 3 years college and have a degree in engineering. Non-USA schools
do that but most USA schools it may take you 4 to 5 years to finish same program why is that?

but nonetheless...do what you love and at least get a BS degree. I have seen guys who had certs in IT say Cisco and had a BS degree or BA in accounting and got great paying jobs between 70-100k so BS in engineering doesnt mean squat...I have worked with BS engineers
and to be honest alot of them book smart but that is it...

famosbrown

Again...it comes down to going to school to learn the skills that you want to use in the workplace or for your own business ventures. Some are focused and find the jobs related to their degree and then some go for accounting, interview for I.T. systems/networking jobs, then complain about their degree not being worth anything or their lack of knowledge coming out of school.

Most traditional schools don't teach you a lot about vendor neutral networking technologies like Microsoft and Cisco. If that's the field you want to go into, then get the certifications and practice on it because you might not at a traditional college. Computer engineering will teach you how to build robots used in company's, computers in cars, actual computer chips, etc. The degree is not equivalent to a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer or Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert.

In short...if you are interviewing for a job that require basic skills that you did not pick up from 4 years of pursuing your college degree, please do not complain about your degree not being worth anything or didn't help you get your job. I was in the same boat when I switched...I learned Programming during the CS portion of my MIS degree and I got a VERY good job out of college doing it. When I decided to switch to the networking/systems side of I.T., I had to kind of start over, but my certification/learning/degree helped propel me toward my goals and still is.