Re: Designer qualifications

From: <Christopher>
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 12:49:00 EDT

>In order to become a designer, do you need a
>bachoelers degree or does it come by experience?
I've got both. The degree is only the beginning, like track shoes. You don't need track shoes to be a good runner, but they help, provided you have the willingness to get better and push yourself a little. Bringing track shoes to a meet also helps people around you see that you're serious enough to invest in the basics.

Experience is a sort of file telling you what happened and the coursework helps explain why it happened that way. The degree itself loses a lot of cachet after a few years, but if you remember the stuff you learned it helps leverage experience into an actual career.

Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant from <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=SyOfxapQZlPg5jicMby9viEtDtGHfld0qUz5EcsQvbxzo7t8beyxREagU4Uh0JmCR3t4D9fJZhYMhlct9g">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)

<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw</a> Received on Fri Jun 22 12:49:00 2001