http://blog.caljacobson.com/2006/10/30/is-this-the-lowest-rung-on-the-it-career-ladder/ Dumping my genius to the Net, in dullard-sized increments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:54:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://blog.caljacobson.com/2006/10/30/is-this-the-lowest-rung-on-the-it-career-ladder/#comment-160 Brenda Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:47:33 +0000 http://blog.caljacobson.com/2006/10/30/is-this-the-lowest-rung-on-the-it-career-ladder/#comment-160 My husband works for the DOD as an engineering consultant and is gone most of the time. He was an electronics technician for 25 years before his present job. He has put in for computer jobs and been rejected because he didn't have a computer science degree or A+ certification to work on computers. He builds his own computers, fixes them for his friends and was around at the beginning when mainframes took up entire buildings and all you could do was simple tasks with punch cards. He has seen computers evolve into what they are today, but yet practical experience is turned away for some pimply-faced kid with no experience and a degree. What a crock. My husband works for the DOD as an engineering consultant and is gone most of the time. He was an electronics technician for 25 years before his present job. He has put in for computer jobs and been rejected because he didn’t have a computer science degree or A+ certification to work on computers. He builds his own computers, fixes them for his friends and was around at the beginning when mainframes took up entire buildings and all you could do was simple tasks with punch cards. He has seen computers evolve into what they are today, but yet practical experience is turned away for some pimply-faced kid with no experience and a degree. What a crock.

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