<p>Exactly, toneranger! That's why statements like the ones in the initial OP's post are invalid, and why worrying over "what hiring managers think" as if they were all fungible is a waste of time.</p>
<p>Folks,</p>
<p>LAC's or Universities are BOTH FINE. It's what you learn that counts.
I have been working for years and have colleagues who graduated from LAC's as well as Universities.</p>
<p>I SEE LITTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE WHO GRADUATED FROM THE FORMER COMPARED TO THE LATER.</p>
<p>It's how you perform and what you know and learned that counts in the real world. In 5 years ( after graduation ), your promotion isn't going to depend on what school you went to. It will depend on how you did on your job, so this debate as to which one is better isn't the real issue.</p>
<p>limnath -- I'll add to that.</p>
<p>5 years from college, anyone who still works as hard in their career as they did in college to attain a high ranking will SHOOOOOT to the top in their job.</p>
<p>In a world where most rising professionals work about 10 hours per day, working 12 really stands out. Working 14, as many college students do between class and homework, will make a person seem superhuman.</p>
<p>Work hard in college. Work the same in the real world and you'll be at the top in 15 years.</p>
<p>Would you rather have a employee who worked 14 hours per day in college and 10 hours per day in their work position, or vice versa?</p>
<p>DunninLA: Shouldn't it read "would you rather have an employee who worked 14 hours per WEEK in college and 10 hours per day in their work position, or vice versa'. But, then again, any employer who expects 14 hours per day of work should seek psychiatric care or friends who have the nerve to tell him to 'get a life'. I'd want an employee who would tell such a manager to either promote her/him into that position so that the work is more efficiently managed, or, if that gets that employee nowhere, a willingness to say something like, say, 'stick it'.</p>
<p>Briansteffy, alot of occupations require 14 hour days. It not that unusual depending on what field you work in. Ever heard of the 60 hour week?</p>
<p>Many employers are not going to care where your degree comes from, but what you can do for them, and how hard you are going to work for them. Dunnin has the right idea.</p>
<p>dke:Yea, I'm approaching retirement. And the older I get, the more I believe what I stated above. It amazes me how people carry their offices around their ear, or on their belt, or in their pocket, or handbag, 24/7; we conflate wasteful business with productivity.Sorry, but we were not destined to regress back to a 60 hour workweek. It took decads to free ourselves from the six day work week - it would have been seven had not business been cursed by the presence of the sabbath. For some reason, we have regressed; perhaps it is global competition, too much communication and electronic monitoring, etc. I know hard work. When I quit college the first time, I worked as a roofer, then in a mobile home factory (standard hour incentive plan; talk about hard work and long hours). After college, I worked in the prisons (12 hour shifts), and then the military (Vietnam Era), and after getting my PhD, I worked in fast-track consulting firms (my own and others), and big corporations, and for the past two decades, I've published so as to not perish. And you know what? Lots of that work was a waste of time; it did not create economic or social value, but was done only to demonstrate to some superior my willingness to 'commit'.
Now, I hope to take the money and run, early. Three cheers for laziness.I wish I would have remained a simple hippie.
College may be the last 4 years you have to do what you want to do, with substantial autonomy, and little surveilance. Go for it; study what you want to study; just do not waste that time self-medicating. Explore and look suspiciously on those big name investment banking, consulting, and Fortune XYZ firms that promise big things, in exchange for 70 hour weeks. They'll dump you, and it's not always the case that the best rise to the top.
If need be, go to grad school and meander another 3-4 years. But, as I say to my son (a HS senior); here is the money for your education. This is it. Save some for grad. school. Make wise decisions. Once this pool of money is spent, you will have to raise the rest on your own, as I did. But do what you want to do now (for him, it's theatre). You can always take accounting and finance courses later.</p>