I’m sorry, but you don’t have a college education
I got a postcard in the mail from a web company down in Baltimore (not the same company I interviewed at yesterday, mind you).
Of course it was a generic turndown letter that didn’t even have a signature on it, stating though my background was interesting, my skills do not match their criteria, etc.
While this is all well and good, I’m consistantly annoyed with companies that only hire based on college training and certifications. When I was at the interview yesterday, the lady owner told me she’s had applicants before that have been trained by the University of Maryland and have degrees in computer science, yet they know nothing about html or css. The schools just aren’t up to date on the INTARWEB technology.
There was no way I could have afforded college, even if I -wanted- to go right out of highschool. Granted I got married right away and moved to Virginia making one of my bigger mistakes in my lifetime. But I honestly think that lesson was more important for me to learn than to spend 5 years in college. To be an independant person and to learn how to take care of myself. Now I’m making my own money, getting divorced, and taking care of my father, which is a lot different than the stupid girl that ran off to get married at 18.
Back on topic, I don’t have any type of formal training for anything. Everything I’ve ever learned, I taught myself. Websites, playing guitar, geology. I guess I’m just not a book learner, I have to learn things hands-on. I think people should just be given a chance to show what they can do. Certified or not, people who take the initiative to learn something on their own because they want to, are just as inept than those that pay to have someone teach it to them from a book.
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One Response to “I’m sorry, but you don’t have a college education”
May 13th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
I have taken some computer courses and one of them had photoshop. I didn’t learn to much. My point, everything I know I figured out myself, too. People are so strange.