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[aumentou]

The government considers higher education to be a route into employment. Did anyone here actually get a job because of their degree?

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[grok-mctanys.livejournal.com]

I needed my degree to get my first Real Job employers to look at me, and the job was completely based on stuff I learned at university.

That my job was programming, and that I learned programming in my spare time while not spending as much time as I should have on my actual course (physics), means that in one sense, no, my actual course did not contribute to my actual job.

But my time at university was vital to me getting it. Both in terms of putting me around people who were able to teach me stuff I needed for my later career (OK, I could program somewhat before I got to uni, but I learned so much more from the other people at CASS/USIT over the 4 years I was at uni that I really couldn't have got a programming job without that) and in terms of getting the degree required to have recruiters look at you.