Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:06:20 -0500 From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Low impact, high value training? (wish me luck!!) Message-ID: <00b901c218e1$6229a5c0$ceec910c@daleco>
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I'm interested in some computer training of some sort. I'm trying to just make a bit more $$ than I have been in other fields. However, the last time I was in a classroom as a students when the topic was computers was in the 1970s. (Anyone remember Apple's IIe and PRODOS? I have taught myself enough to run various OSes with some success and am building up a small service/consulting business in this backwater part of the world. For the most part my customers are satisfied, and my competitors haven't yet comie to beat me up. My question is, is any training out there worth much, short of another degree? Here's something that worries me: I visited a customer this week for several hours. She had a M$ system that runs like a<n> (original) 1939 Packard on diesel with half the valves stuck... you get the idea ... :-) Obviously she's no good at tweaking a system. She has a professional photography business, but claims to have university/college training in computers, including programming in C++. She said she made As & Bs (high marks, for those familiar with other terminology...). She wants me to build her another system, so I quoted several configurations ... As I was fighting with her Windoze, she came in, pointed to the field on the quote form that said "Processor type and speed" and asked, "What is this talking about?" If I can learn more in a few years of practical experience and late night www-surfing than she can in college courses, what's the point of training? I'm not knocking anyone with a CS degree of any type (she obviously doesn't have one....) I just don't think that attending a course or two here in SW Missouri is going to help a lot. Any thoughts? TIA, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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