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PrussianShrooms 6 points ago +7 / -1

The IT guy at my new job is a fucking wizard, everything runs smooth, no downtime, and from what the word is has been this way since he started.

He has never set foot on a college campus, all self-taught. I made him crack up when a co-worker was asking how to do a basic task and I remarked RTFM.

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BlackSalt 5 points ago +6 / -1

Yeah, I've seen it as well. Some people are good at design, programming, netsec, hell even engineering, and they don't need a fancy certificate.

Even myself—majority of work I did, even for massive corporations, all they cared about was my work.

Don't get me wrong, there are tricks you can learn with teaching. You can also learn pitfalls from those with experience and get access to machinery that may be cost-prohibitive. Self-teaching is seriously underrated. I wouldn't have survived this long if I hadn't taught myself most of what I know.

I am a firm advocate for eliminating affirmative action and bringing back apprenticeships and also figuring out in middle school and high school what each kid is good at and preparing them for real-world application of their talents.

rant over :P

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PrussianShrooms 1 point ago +2 / -1

your shit is bitrchmade, you can't even link properly and you use a memgenerator because you're too fucking lazy to have your own meme folder. I would call you a shill but that would be giving you too much credit. I would call you a leftist but that would be giving you too much credence. But a faggot? yeah, definitely.

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LORD_RM 1 point ago +1 / -0

lol dude, settle

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borscht-nazi 0 points ago +1 / -1

Cope harder, shitbag.