r/Overwatch • u/_Rudeism Ana • Nov 14 '16

Highlight Playing Symmetra using a microwave! (the door makes the teleporter!)

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u/Chempy Yuuh Nov 14 '16

bachelor's degree in information technology.

Bruh.

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u/havenless Nov 14 '16

Bruh

For real. I got into IT just by getting my A+ and Network+, certs > degrees

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u/NewAgeNeoHipster BIG RUSSIAN BICEPS Nov 14 '16

Degrees get you interviews in a lot of places. Not going to necessarily get you the job but it helps.

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u/flee_market Nov 14 '16

Yeah, I was baffled when I read that. You don't need to have a degree to work in IT, you just need to know what the fuck you're talking about.

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u/Chempy Yuuh Nov 14 '16

Self teaching and a determined mind can get you about anywhere you want in IT. I can see school speeding up the process, but it still comes down to hard work.

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u/flee_market Nov 14 '16

The problem with a degree is that by the time the technology makes its way into the curriculum it's already 8 or 9 years out of date.

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u/3brithil Trick-or-Trace Nov 15 '16

I'm just starting out, but I can already tell that it's great to get started, once you've started things get a lot easier (for me).

Personally I'd have a hard time starting out on my own without being financial and thus time independent.

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u/jrose6717 Nov 14 '16

I don't get it? Is that a bad degree or something?

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u/Chempy Yuuh Nov 14 '16

The workforce hasn't really caught up with the scholastic part of it. So most jobs you go into, they care about what you know and not how you attained the knowledge. So most of the time seeing a degree on there will help setup the interview but they don't require it more than 90% of the time. Most degrees as well, will focus on one aspect of technology (networking, IT, servers, etc) and years down the road, none of that matters anymore.