Reading this article last year, and i have change my major from economics to computer science eventhough my for the past 3 years i have been dropping "hardscience" to more liberal arts studies. I am pretty much agree that liberal art is "useless", full bunch of people debating something that not really practally usefull and thats not my nature. Luckily i got accepted to change my major, and much more enjoy to do that.
Skills and education (2007)
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Re: Skills and education (2007)
#12I don't think so. Out of all things taught there, the few useful things are: accounting, business law, marketing just to learn the terminology, logistics, and out of all "high finance repertoire" the only useful things are fx transaction hedging, and trade finance. Well, and math as well if yours is not on a university level already. All critical thinking stuff, "strategy" well, for the most part, is simply laughable…
what's your background?
Re: Skills and education (2007)
#13Reading this article last year, and i have change my major from economics to computer science eventhough my for the past 3 years i have been dropping "hardscience" to more liberal arts studies. I am pretty much agree that liberal art is "useless", full bunch of people debating something that not really practally usefull and thats not my nature. Luckily i got accepted to change my major, and much more enjoy to do that…
So will you do an MBA later?
Re: Skills and education (2007)
#14An MBA is a great addition to addition to a Computer Science degree. If you don't have a Computer Science degree then get one of those first. The skills you learn are that which are not talked about in both fields. In the business world you have to understand the business person's motivations by speaking their language. An MBA is a great way to round out and provide those skills and understanding.
Re: Skills and education (2007)
#15I don't think so. Out of all things taught there, the few useful things are: accounting, business law, marketing just to learn the terminology, logistics, and out of all "high finance repertoire" the only useful things are fx transaction hedging, and trade finance. Well, and math as well if yours is not on a university level already. All critical thinking stuff, "strategy" well, for the most part, is simply laughable…
what's your background?
Long story short: been into engineering from my early years, and by my late teens firmly set my eyes on microelectronics, to the extend I managed to self study it to the level of somebody on the second year of university program, but insistent parents were hellbent on sending me studying "businessy things rich people do" (or so they thought those do.) I somehow managed to get back into technology after graduation and work in an engineering consulting now, closer to the business side
Re: Skills and education (2007)
#16Reading this article last year, and i have change my major from economics to computer science eventhough my for the past 3 years i have been dropping "hardscience" to more liberal arts studies. I am pretty much agree that liberal art is "useless", full bunch of people debating something that not really practally usefull and thats not my nature. Luckily i got accepted to change my major, and much more enjoy to do that…
So will you do an MBA later?
It already becomes my option. Though I am still open with any opportunity, i am thinking about focusing more in cs problem, considering master in cs. I saw right now, it is much more interesting and has higher leverage. But will see that later.
Re: Skills and education (2007)
#17The knowledge covered by an MBA can easily be picked up by reading a few books. The value of an MBA is the connections from networking with your classmates in a tier 1 program. A non-tier 1 MBA is worthless.
Which books would you recommend?
The Goal is really good from a manufacturing perspective. And The Phoenix Project is good from a IT/devops perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-pro...
Re: Skills and education (2007)
#18The knowledge covered by an MBA can easily be picked up by reading a few books. The value of an MBA is the connections from networking with your classmates in a tier 1 program. A non-tier 1 MBA is worthless.
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Re: Skills and education (2007)
#19Learning is quite a reverent topic. I am an excellent student and it is important for me that I have enough time for each item to master it. But sometimes time is simply not enough ... Therefore, you have to write a daily routine in order to somehow plan your time. I even bought a special pocket notebook https://onplanners.com/planners/best-academic-planners-colle... for this. It is very convenient, you can record any information in it, it does not take up much space. So who has problems with the allocation of time, I advise you to write yourself daily routines)
Re: Skills and education (2007)
#20When i was at school i tried to read as many books as i could, but then i grew up and got lazy boy :D