Jobs?

[Gene Dascher]

Do you mind if I ask why you're going to DeVry?  Are you going for a CIS
degree or an electronics degree?  The reason that I ask is that I am a
former DeVry student who got sick of paying WAY too much $$$ for the
"education" that I was getting there.

DISCLAIMER: I was a CIS major, and I was going at night, so that is the only
program I know about.

I have heard good things about the electronics program there.  Here are the
major reasons that I decided to leave:

1. Inexperienced teachers.  I had my fill of teachers reading verbatim out
of the book to me in the classroom.  Teachers were teaching subjects in
which they had NO Real-World experience, contrary to what they say in their
commercials.  Not all teachers, mind you, but enough to make me balk.  They
hired a lady to teach COBOL who had been in the workforce for 3 years (she
was a DeVry graduate), and within 2 semesters, she was teaching
Client-Server architecture.  One of my friends who took that class basically
helped her make it through the semester because she had NO idea what she was
doing.

2. For a school that was on the "Cutting Edge", I had taken 5 COBOL classes
as opposed to 1 C++ class by the time I left.  This is in the mid-1990s.

3. I was paying WAY too much money for what I was getting in return.  Not
that I am discouraging you from going to college.  I am going to go back and
finish my degree some day, only not at DeVry!

I hope I haven't rained on your parade, I just wanted to let you know what
my experience at that school was, as a contrast to the picture that the
recruiters paint for you when they are trying to get your money.  This is a
warning to all of you high school students who are going off to college
soon.  Fully investigate the school that you are wanting to go to.  Get
opinions from current students as well as alumni.  I was starry eyed, new in
town, and knew nothing about anything when I was reeled in by the DeVry
recruiters.  I'm not even saying not to go to DeVry.  Some people swear by
it.  It just was not for me.

Gene

-----Original Message-----
From: jared [mailto:jared at mail.ru]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 10:41 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Jobs?

While i'm at it, i thought i'd spam a bit more to ask if anyone knows of any
good part-time computer repair/build/sales/networking jobs that would work
well for a full time DeVRY student (well, soon to be devry student,
currently high school student for 7 more weeks).  I need a $8/hour or so
paying job offering hours close to 3pm-whenever and possible weekends? This
would be great if in the Overland Park area.  Lately I've been confined to
applying at Micro Center and CompUSA, none of which seem to like highschool
kids who try to look cool by putting linux on their job applications :)

   Jared