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Re: Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor

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Post by busterarm »

vonmoltke wrote: post #28
verbin217 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my personal experience a solid work history is much better than a degree. Once you have it the value of a degree decreases significantly. Its almost entirely redundant. The only problem is you often need the degree to get the work history. I've also noticed as I start working with people who have their Masters and some with PHDs that people take me seriously. It's like... I must know what I'm talking about. How el…

Not having a degree does lock you out of some opportunities where HR uses it as a binary checkbox. We can go on and on here about how such policies are stupid and how you wouldn't really want to work at a place like that anyway, but the fact of the matter is not having a degree closes doors. In that sense, there is value to having one.

Especially at companies that are using some SaaS product to streamline their recruitment process...Greenhouse, I'm looking at you.

I don't even bother applying to companies that do that anymore as it's counter to my whole "make a personal connection at the company to apply" philosophy.

Re: Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor

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Post by sergiotapia »

sdybskiy wrote: post #22
grardb wrote: post #18

I really like this. It reminds me of Mr. Money Mustache's "50 Jobs over $50,000 - Without a Degree": [Part 1] http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/07/25/50-jobs-over-50000... [Part 2] http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/08/05/50-jobs-over-50000... Quick question: How did you get pagination working? I haven't built anything big in Meteor, but I did go through the Discover Meteor book, and it said that Meteor doesn't le…

I am using Flow Router https://github.com/kadirahq/flow-router to route the app. And this is the package I'm using for pagination https://atmospherejs.com/miguelalarcos/flow-router-paginatio... . So far it hasn't let me down (there are a few bugs with the subscriptions on each individual page) but if you play around with the work style filter you'll see the collection reactivity and how it's reflected on the subscrip…

My website also uses FlowRouter and flow-router-pagination. If you want to check out the source and see how it works, see here: https://github.com/sergiotapia/trovemarketplace

Re: Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor

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Post by bdg »

zig wrote: post #3

For people nearing the end of high-school, please go to college. I don't have a degree and have been extremely lucky; I managed to get into middle-management and have been successful. The problem is that I'm not as "portable" as I would be with a degree - in other words, a layoff or termination could put my lifestyle in jeopardy. As such, I am going back to school at 29. Get it over with :)

All the companies I've ever been interested in never had a problem with my education. One actually asked me to verify I'm a drop-out for their background check =/

Re: Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor

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Post by imslavko »

mkoryak wrote: post #32

why is "lead android developer" the only software related career path? what happened to just "software engineer" ?

I think a lot of career paths on the site are showing the ultimate goal, and then a "path" to it, the career ladder.

Re: Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor

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Post by dopamean »

antidamage wrote: post #29
zig wrote: post #3

For people nearing the end of high-school, please go to college. I don't have a degree and have been extremely lucky; I managed to get into middle-management and have been successful. The problem is that I'm not as "portable" as I would be with a degree - in other words, a layoff or termination could put my lifestyle in jeopardy. As such, I am going back to school at 29. Get it over with :)

I'm 37. At my age a degree is completely irrelevant if you have the skill set. In fact, ten years ago I was approached by a university to start my Master's degree, with the missing Bachelor's degree being credited through time spent working in my industry at the time. The reality of education in America is that it's an expensive tickbox. It verges on being a racket. While you don't want to be the lone rebel being cru…

I'm 29 and do not have an undergrad degree. I was recently accepted to a well respected masters in computer science program. I declined to go because I'm pretty happy with my career trajectory at the moment and I think taking the time off work to do that would actually be detrimental.
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