What's everyone up to?

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Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

I'd take Calculus over the ridiculous list of words I will never use in real life that I will have to memorize. Bleh.

The best part is these tests don't gauge work ethic, determination, or knowledge across under-privileged groups of people. So at best the GRE is probably moderately correlated with success during the first year or two of grad school. It's a big money racket.

Haha, fair enough. I do think these graduate tests gauge work ethic and determination, as they are all very learnable through study and repetition, although I'm sure you could argue that under-privileged groups don't have the necessary time and/or resources to do this (I was able to increase my LSAT score from around the 80th percentile to the 96th percentile through a fair amount of study and practice test taking).

Originally Posted by magus113

I'm still going towards my bachelor's in IT (starting my sixth year this Fall, I hate my life), and probably gonna start pooling around for a new IT job because my job really just threw another nail in the coffin for me today and I'm really not too pleased about it. This is also considering that I have no clue as to how the IT job market is looking, especially for someone without a degree, even though I have 4+ years of experience in a professional IT environment.

What was that additional nail in the coffin?

The future of IT looks quite promising according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos258.htm