How easy is it to find a job with a degree from Big 3?

[ChilliDawg]

I got to thinking, and I would like to add that several months ago I decided to look at the Education section of many of my friends on LinkedIn. It is a great place for people to detail their Educational experience.

I have almost 125 friends in my network, and I browsed through most of their profiles. Most of my LinkedIn connections are co-workers in Information Technology.

I was surprised to find that very few people that I know actually went to a Brick and Mortar school, and stuck with the same one for 4 years straight. Very few actually had a degree in I.T. of Software Development. Their degrees ranged from music education to Psychology to Business Admin. I was surprised to see that my manager went off to Clemson for his freshman year, and then moved back to Florida after only one year. Then transfered into UCF for a year or two, and then finished at Daytona State. His major was MAthematics, and he is now an I.T. Manager. Many of my friends are transfer students. Many of them, all over the place. Starting at SUNY Buffalo and then ending up at USF. Many of them went to small colleges, that I had never even heard of. Many went to theological schools. Few, if any, were Ivy League or went to "prestigious" schools. I would say that most of my friends do pretty well in their careers, and they do so without fancy schools or degrees. Again, this comes back possessing demostrable skill sets.

I bring this up, because I see many of these threads here, and I think many of us have a latent worry about whether we are doing the right thing, or whether our schools can compete with our peers. I think that most of us here are doing just fine, simply in the fact that we are here, and we are pursuing a goal to better ourselves. And, most importantly, we desire to do it without ending up with hundreds of thousands in student loans to pay back. WE are the type of people I would want to hire. Stay with it, and achieve your goals!