<p>That’s still a pretty horrible story. Imagine if he were a surgeon, and he was about to cut open your chest to do heart surgery, and just before he plunged the scalpel into your chest he turned to you and said, “No, sir, I didn’t go to a fancy ‘doctor school’. This is just a gig I picked up to supplement my income from my main job working at Burger King. Now, hold still, I have to get this done quick so I can go back to studying for my GED.”</p>
<p>I have been in software engineering now 20 years…17 directly related to database systems. I thought by now, I would have needed to find another computer science/I.T. specialty but it is not the case. Granted I did obtain a security clearance to further secure my employment. It’s a good thing Database Systems is still an elective CS course in most programs.</p>
<p>Many engineering jobs are unique to a particular process or system, I don’t even know what accounting is but maybe the job variability is less extreme. Consequently an outsider with experience in the engineering field will still have to come up to speed at a new position in a company; in these cases it makes sense to desire a fresh engineer that will stick around and acquire skills relevant to the specific job at hand and grow within the company…</p>
<p>It’s like someone at haliburton told me, they might rather you skip grad school and come to them directly so they can train you exclusively the things that are valuable to their exact operations. </p>
<p>There’s are many exceptions to this, I think what I’m saying would be more applicable to unique manufacturing plant processes than others.</p>