Re: database training

On 20.01.2008 17:35, Roy Hann wrote:
> "Robert Klemme" <shortcutter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:5vgunpF1llv0qU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On 14.01.2008 07:23, arunbrawn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> For me often learning on a job is more effective [snip].
> 
> Yep.  It's a cowboy industry and you'll only make yourself unhappy and 
> unwelcome if you get a proper education.  I wish accountants and doctors
and 
> engineers took the same attitude.  I'm tired of airliners and coronary 
> artery byp***** that work well.   We should never have given up steam 
> engines and rebalancing the humors.

I did not discount a proper education - I have a degree in CS myself.  A 
proper foundation is well worth the money (note that the OP apparently 
has as well).  And learning on the job does not mean that you do not 
learn it properly.  You should have quoted the whole sentence: "For me 
often learning on a job is more effective - but you need an employer who 
is ready to provide the resources (IT and time)."  The advantage is 
motivation: if I have a real problem to solve it's easier for me to come 
up with a proper solution than with training examples which often are 
very simplistic and sometimes not even realistic.

Cheers

	robert