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Originally Posted by Fossil
For what it's worth, I believe there is far too much importance placed on qualifications and too little placed on experience....
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I couldn't agree more on this point either. My formal qualifications are a certificate of technology in electronics I finished in 1979. I was working at one stage with an electronics engineer about 15 years my senior who had given me the task of testing a circuit he had designed. After a lot of testing I couldn't get it to work and explained my theory of why it wasn't working. His explanation was that he had calculated all of the poles of the filter, bandwidth etc and that it would work. Eventually, I made my modification and it worked. He couldn't understand why it needed to be changed, but could see it would only work with my modification (I guess he thought "what would a 20 year old techo know").
I always say "an education doen't make you right, hopefully just more likely". Over the years I have worked with a number of people with enough letters after their name they need an appendix on their business card. Most have been very clever people, but some have been unable to see the possibility of them being wrong. An education prepares you and your mind for a lifetime of experiences, and in the end it is your experiences that count the most.