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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone with a PhD, I don't think formal education is necessarily the direct path to a well paid job any longer. It is actually the opposite, the lack of education is. Too many teenagers and college drop-out creating start-ups out their basements while the rest of us are left drowning in education debt.

Innovation is the path to a well paid job, formal education is the path to learning about what someone else innovated. [/quote]

+1 [/quote]

While I get what you are saying, every start up really only needs 1 or 2 top innovators/ creators (and that is not talking about the MANY failed starts)- when one of them blows up they hire people with pedigree educations. Facebook only has 1 Zuckerberg, they have almost 10K employees and you bet your bottom that they aren't mostly college dropouts. I have a great friend who recruited for Google in SE Asia for about 4 years. She would always say that you not only needed credentials but you practically needed a "gimmick" to get in the door at Google US, great school and solid experience, just OK, also took sabbatical to travel to inoculate orphans on a mountainside village inaccessible by cars, well now we might interview you. (Not saying developing nation work is a "gimmick" just to say that in the field you are romanticizing as being filled with pioneers who drop out, it isn't really accurate.[/quote]

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