ASP/Visual Studio good for anything?

Mahzkrieg

Mahzkrieg

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I'm getting a MIS degree from a high-ranked undergrad biz school

...but all of my technical know-how from university is in Visual Studio, ASP, and MSSQL. Everything else (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP, Ruby, IDEs, Android/iPhone development) I've taught myself. Now that I'm about to graduate and I've been interviewing with a lot of recruiters, I feel like everything that's marketable about me is everything I've taken the time to learn on my own.

I could talk about university feeling like a huge waste of capital/time, but that's another story.

My university is a self-proclaimed "Microsoft shop", and I'm aware that they're made to funnel us into mid-level Fortune 500 companies, but is ASP/Visual Basic practical for any industry? Just/even big business? I kept my degree because MIS was the only thing remotely interesting to me in the biz school, and it looks good on paper (the only real value of many college degrees), but I feel like my degree is technically worthless.

When I pay $1,400 per class, I guess I was just expecting a little more from university now that's almost all said and done. If I could go back in time, I'm not so sure skipping college and using that capital to invest in businesses that could sustain my love for world travel would be such a bad idea. Maybe I just chose the wrong shop.
 


Haha, that's an understatement.

I could've learned everything I know about ASP in a week or two of motivated curiosity -- pretty much how I learned every other language. But my university decided to stretch it across three semesters so they could sucker $1,400 from me each time.
 
Mahzkrieg said:
I'm getting a MIS degree from a high-ranked undergrad biz school

...but all of my technical know-how from university is in Visual Studio, ASP, and MSSQL. Everything else (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP, Ruby, IDEs, Android/iPhone development) I've taught myself. Now that I'm about to graduate and I've been interviewing with a lot of recruiters, I feel like everything that's marketable about me is everything I've taken the time to learn on my own.

I could talk about university feeling like a huge waste of capital/time, but that's another story.

My university is a self-proclaimed "Microsoft shop", and I'm aware that they're made to funnel us into mid-level Fortune 500 companies, but is ASP/Visual Basic practical for any industry? Just/even big business? I kept my degree because MIS was the only thing remotely interesting to me in the biz school, and it looks good on paper (the only real value of many college degrees), but I feel like my degree is technically worthless.

When I pay $1,400 per class, I guess I was just expecting a little more from university now that's almost all said and done. If I could go back in time, I'm not so sure skipping college and using that capital to invest in businesses that could sustain my love for world travel would be such a bad idea. Maybe I just chose the wrong shop.
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Here's the thing you have NO experience. Doesn't matter if you have a PHD or masters if you've never had a job. You got placed (internship?) at a company that can use the skills they taught you. Consider yourself lucky.

A lot of places are Microsoft shops. dotNET / visual c++ / etc developers generally make really good money ($50+) an hour on the low. Don't worry about marketable skills.

With that said it doesn't matter, you have a degree. They SHOULD have taught you theory and how to apply the theory they taught you. If they did do this then you'll have no problem picking up a new language, because at that point it will be learning syntax. A data structure is a data structure doesn't matter what language it's in the concepts are the same.

MIS is for PHBs and CS is for the technically and mathematically inclined good luck.
 
Meh it doesn't matter university is about teaching you how to learn and solve problems for the rest of your life not just teaching you everything you'll need to know. Plus it's a fucking good time if you do it right. If you wanted to just know the skills for a job you'd go to a vocational school.
 
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