On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:23:39 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:


Gee, Bill, I hope the taxpayers of your state didn't subsidize your
education. Why was college necessary, anyway? Couldn't you have picked
up some workbooks at the library or gotten your education in the
military?

I did get most of my education in the military and over the span of 30
years at IBM. I am sure I have 10 to 15 times as much classroom hours
as a guy with an MS degree.
We were typically in school at IBM for around 2-3 months a year, 8
hours a day, 5 days a week in the 60s and 70s.
It really did not slow down that much in the 80s but a lot of it was
online learning, before it had the name..
(It was Field Instructional System for us) They had the facility in
your office to avoid travel cost.
That was followed up with a couple of weeks of "hands on lab" in an
education center somewhere and some stand up lecture.