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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Wrong attitude. Not everyone is going to be famous (make a name for himself). Most people are average and will spend their careers as worker bees. Plenty of people in my company have science / engineering degrees from no-name universities, and they have perfectly satisfying, well-paying jobs even though they never rose into top management.[/quote]

I disagree.  You don't need to be famous, but a lot of "worker bee" jobs are not high paying nor are they particularly intellectually satisfying or secure.  Also getting a degree from a no-name university doesn't necessarily say much about how smart or talented they are, but often it has to do more with what opportunities were available to them at the time they were applying to college.  When I was in a top graduate program in the sciences, there were plenty of people who got their degrees at various state schools for financial reasons who did very well.  [b]A lot of people who go into CS or engineering who are not really that good at what they do are the ones who freak out about their jobs getting outsourced.[/b][/quote]

Very true.  The kind of people who went into these fields to just to have a decent job are usually very expendable.[/quote]

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