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   >  AT> But can you credit any 101 courses with giving you job skills? I can't,   
   >  AT> but I've never held a job that requires a college education.   
      
   > I studied computer science and took business classes in the summer time.   
   > Accounting 101 got my foot in the door at my college bookstore. I later   
   > took a job supporting their computer system and writing code, and it   
   > jump-started my career.   
      
   I initially felt like I didn't learn anything practical in college, even   
   though I graduated with a BSBA in Management/CIS.  Looking back, I am   
   pretty sure that if ~18 year old me had continued in the workforce without   
   it, things would have been much different.  At the very least, it allowed   
   me 4+ years to mature a little more.   
      
   My eventual "career job" did require a degree in order to be hired, even   
   though the degree didn't really qualify me for the job.  It did allow me to   
   get my foot in the door at a higher pay grade than I otherwise would have,   
   and gave me an opportunity to show what I could really do, whether I   
   learned it in college or otherwise.   
      
   I also sometimes believe that the job I had while going to college...   
   working in the college library... helped prepare me more than the actual   
   degree did.  I could not have worked there, though, if I was not a student.   
      
   Mike   
      
      
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