Quote Originally Posted by Blu (Ontario)
At the end of the day, reputation means more to me than a piece of paper.
To draw a parallel... who is better at their job... someone with several years experience or someone fresh out of college with a degree in that field (I know... it depends on the field)? As stated earlier... the degree doesn't necessarily mean that they're better. It also doesn't mean that they're any worse... you have to take it on a case by case basis.

Having gone through college and earned a degree, I can tell you that my REAL LIFE job experiences FAR outweigh anything I learned in a class, although the classwork did prepare me for certain things I would have otherwise had to learn the "hard way".