>If you don't get a job a year or so after graduation in your major field, you probably never will. This is not my perception at all. I got my job without a d

>If you don't get a job a year or so after graduation in your major field, you probably never will. This is not my perception at all. I got my job without a degree by being willing to work for pay I was qualified for while doing a job that I wasn't qualified for, but that I was able to 'figure out' well enough. If you are willing to work for retail wages, the standards go way down, and there are more employers than you think who want to hire programmers for little more than retail wages. The deal is that you work for shit wages for a while; if you are good, you can then take that experience (remember, your title was 'programmer' or something) and use it to get a real job, as now you have X years experience working as a programmer, even if you got paid absolute shit during that time.