Michael
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Originally posted by Michael Bronshteyn:
Your degree will always be with you. I would go for the first one, if you feel you need to spend time and money for M.S. It is more fundumental than the E-Commerce degree. No matter which way software industry will develop, you will always benefit on strong fundumentals given by CS degree. The second one sounds like hype of the dot com era.
Also, most or the people have heard of Computer Science degree and not E-Commerce one. Thus you can always learn some technology specifics later and apply as MSCS for any job you like.
- Jess
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Originally posted by Mark Herschberg:
E-commerce degree?!?! I'll tell you this, it ain't accredited! And there's a reason for that. Computer Science, while young by academic standards, is a good 50-80 years old. E-commerce is a flavor of the month.
--Mark
Originally posted by James Smith:
Pace University is accredited. Their MBA program is top 10 in the usa.
Originally posted by James Smith:
Pace University is accredited. Their MBA program is top 10 in the usa.
i can understand why everyone on this site and others speak so highly of CS degrees, namely because all you guys went to college and got CS degrees of your own. The Ecommerce degree at pace just came out and it teaches lots of stuff most guys in college taking cs and cis degrees dont know. Like client/server scripting and programming, jdbc, jsp, xml and web server configuration, etc.
I think I would learn a lot more about the field going this way, as I prepare to learn J2Me and J2ee on my own.
But I respect all of your opinions, and Im having a hard time deciding.
BTW, the info systems thing is something I dont wanna do.
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Originally posted by James Smith:
The Ecommerce degree at pace just came out and it teaches lots of stuff most guys in college taking cs and cis degrees dont know. Like client/server scripting and programming, jdbc, jsp, xml and web server configuration, etc.
John Coxey
Evansville, Indiana, USA
Originally posted by John Coxey:
Anyone out there going for nursing?
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Originally posted by Rufus BugleWeed:
Mark, how often do you call on Maxwell or Schrodinger?
Originally posted by Rufus BugleWeed:
If it's not very often, why did a person of your tenacity digress to writing engineering management books?
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John Coxey
Evansville, Indiana, USA
Originally posted by John Coxey:
All:
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What appeals to me (besides job security) - is the traveling nurse positions. Where you go out for 13 weeks at a time. Looks like just about every state has a need for hospital nurses - and will contract you for 13 weeks at a time.
Was looking at benefits. They pay 100% cost of hospitalization. I am currently paying $850/yr for coverage though my employer.
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John Coxey
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Originally posted by Tim Holloway:
A masters degree, by many accounts only makes the search even harder - I.T. is one field where you can often be penalized for too much education or experience.
Originally posted by Tim Holloway:
As for "working in wireless networking", that's fine if you actually have an offer, but like a lot of other people here at the JavaRanch (at least in the U.S./Western Europe), with me it's not a matter of getting a job in wireless networking, it's a matter of getting another job at all.
Mark Herschberg, author of The Career Toolkit
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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
Mark, how does an MS in CIS or MIS compare to CS?
John Coxey
Evansville, Indiana, USA
Originally posted by Rufus BugleWeed:
Seriously, we're not recommending careers in IT at all. How about an MBA, a law degree, or education. Wouldn't you like the summers off by the beach.
I'm assuming by your name and your universities name you are somewhere in the western world. For the price of your salary they can hire five hungry Russians. You can't compete.
Besides that this career field is always changing and you can't keep up. If you should get behind, it's time to find a new career. Everything that happens in this business is an incremental improvement. We all agree that a most people can take the next step. But the employers really don't want to hire you after your 30. So they claim you can't.
Some mindless, annonymous, cowards around here will say - Oh the young guys are cheaper.
Many will say people with experience are more productive.
It does not matter. Companies won't hire an old guy at new guy prices.
Sam Tilley SCJP, SCWCD
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