“And to us and without magistracy it is quite good ...”
- Bill Gates has no higher education - only two years of study at the undergraduate program at Harvard University ...
- Steve Jobs studied only 1 semester in college ...
- Pavel Durov has a degree in philology, and the founders of Yandex, Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich, studied geology ...
This list could be continued to make sure that without a special magistracy in the field of information technology it is possible to succeed very well in the field of IT.
But this is not entirely true. Let's try to prove it.
1. Professional growth is based on proven competencies.
The usual objection to further study sounds like this: “I already work in a good company and in an excellent team, I earn money normally and I am satisfied with everything”. And you really can’t argue with this: a person is happy with everything. But it will be only a few years, and if you do not grow intellectually, career growth will also be in question. The larger the business, the greater the importance is attached to all sorts of diplomas, certificates, degrees and other distinctions that signal to HR services that a person deserves a promotion both in salary and salary ... In medium and large companies where there are at least the slightest competition, in the event of a vacancy, a choice will be made in favor of a more educated one. If only because it is easier for the boss to explain his decision: “Sorry, both of you are good, but you have only the initial higher education ...”
2. Work without burning
A professional argument that experts often talk about: even a very creative and inspired work over time becomes a routine, and after a few years courage and enthusiasm are replaced by creative burnout. A person feels like a “slave on galleys”: he is tired of work, and he has nowhere to go, because he can only do what he did yesterday and does now ... It would be possible to retrain, but by this time, as a rule, a person already has a family, which must be maintained ... Yes, and the work itself eats all the time, leaving no opportunity to learn: “The turnover has seized!” The magistracy gives a wider view, increases erudition, focuses on analysis and reflection, forms critical thinking and creative skills. Having more competencies and a wider field of vision is much easier to change jobs and switch to new areas of professional activity, avoiding the very “creative burnout”.
By the way, short-sighted employers for this very reason, if they do not directly prohibit studying further, then at least they are discouraged from this and they are fixing all sorts of obstacles: a more qualified specialist is harder to keep in the same place for several years ...
3. Formalities in reality
Another - very boring - argument, over which, at the age of 20, does not particularly reflect. Now in our country, professional standards are being developed and are beginning to be applied, in which it is not only what the employee should know and be able to do in his field, what functions to perform and what to be responsible for - they also state the level of education that allows him to take even small management positions. For example, to manage a project, you need to have a master's degree behind you. Soon these standards will become mandatory, at least in large enterprises and in state-owned companies. In a few years, the opportunity to move up the career ladder in big business without a master’s degree will become very problematic. But even for a small business, and for a freelancer, the lack of specialists with master's degrees can become an obstacle to winning a software development tender or project implementation.
4. Everything must be done on time, incl. study
And we smoothly move on to the following argument: the younger a person is, the easier it is to learn. If you postpone the magistracy "for later", in addition to family and home, which will require more and more time and money, you will have to break yourself: turn from a pros into a student, listen to others, not yourself, make other people's decisions, not your own ... And in general the brain no longer willing to learn. At the same time, it will still be necessary to take the entrance exams, and an adult programmer, as a rule, has already forgotten the diffures, the Cauchy theorem, and tensors ... You can, of course, remember all this, but you have to compete with yesterday's students who have just filled themselves hand, passing the state exam ...
5. Professional skills and networking
One can also bring a very controversial argument, but which, nevertheless, “works” in practice: not only new knowledge and skills, but also new contacts and connections are formed during study. According to surveys of graduates of master's programs, among the main advantages of studies, invariably among the main ones was the formation of a professional environment - specialists with whom you are friends “not by correspondence”, but whom you “saw in business”. The Internet is, of course, a great information platform, but sometimes a virtual image is very far from real. And offline classmates who know each other, as a rule, call back and consult each other, receive recommendations and advice, find new more interesting and attractive places of work. Without going through a joint school and only through “virtual friendship” it is very difficult to join this professional community.
6. Learn to learn
There is one more, it would seem, weighty statement against studies: “In the IT sphere, everything is developing so fast that the masters' programs teach“ yesterday ”...”. It probably was a few years ago. But now the magistracy mainly teaches to learn, which means that the graduate of the magistracy will be more successful in accepting the new, owning the skills of self-learning. Teachers from business come to the magistracy in order not only to share their experience, but also to teach the graduate “for themselves”, forming actual competencies. Here, for example, at MAI, 5 new IT-master's programs are now being launched, in which the leading role is given to the most well-known IT companies, which not only provide places for internships, but also conduct classes and train students.
In addition, the most important task of the modern magistracy is to create a “dependence” on studies, on the acquisition of new knowledge, for life. And then there is no doubt that the career will develop very well.
7. Money
From talking about the soul smoothly go to the money. While in our country there are still budgetary places in the magistracy, but will the existing order be preserved in a few years, when today's graduate of the bachelor degree will “mature”?
By the way, about the examples above. Bill Gates, from the age of 18, reads no less than 200 pages of professional literature every day; therefore, he can be called one of the most self-educated people in the world. Steve Jobs also read a lot and had the broadest vision. But Pavel Durov, Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich received a wide, somewhat redundant, education in the best Soviet traditions, which taught them to “learn, learn and learn again ...”
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