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This is a paradox which I can easily relate to. A lot of students start internship where I work and quite often I am their mentor officially or not so. Recentl
by adontz 6y ago
This is a paradox which I can easily relate to.
A lot of students start internship where I work and quite often I am their mentor officially or not so. Recently their dean called me and offered to lecture at the university. I am an engineer with 20 years of experience, I can teach a lot of useful practical things, but when I looked into syllabus it was a list of mostly useless theoretical knowledge I am no expert in. Honestly, it was not a pleasant moment, I felt like a successful plumber.
- kingsuper20 6y agoC'est la vie. The disconnect between college and industry has always existed I think. My guess is that what students really want is a lecture in how to get a job, not how to be useful in a job. OJT and fakeittillyoumakeit would then become the order of the day. I wonder sometimes why I don't hear more about apprenticeships by the nation-state sized companies. Bring in likely 17 year olds and train them in whatever specialized way you like. Perhaps some of all this interview nonsense could be avoided by commonly recognized software equivalents of a PE cert, but I suppose you'd simply slide into subtle quizzes about programming languages and the like.