Is a degree better to have, or is experience? This may be a very gray area these days…

Sure, in some cases, having a degree is 100x better than experience. Take the medical profession for example… I would rather have someone who went to school then someone who learned from reading books in their spare time.

But when it comes to todays technology careers, I believe that the balance is shifting. More and more kids give up their dreaded outside play time to sit inside and learn PHP, Flash, and how to put their face on someone else’s body. Most kids start at around 10 years old doing this, then by the time they graduate high school, they have been spending almost 7 days a week playing around with this stuff.

That is 8 years of experience.

I have been doing it for 13 years. Now, if I go into a job interview for a graphic design job, or a web design job alongside some recent college graduate who has only ever designed since they went to college (we’ll say 4 years), who will get the job?

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Started drinking mountain dew when I was about 13.

I am 21 now.

So let’s figure from birdthday to birthday…
That would be 8 years… 96 months… And if we just go with an average of 30 days a month, 2880 days.

Since the age of 13 I have been drinking ATLEAST 6 12oz. cans and 2 20oz. bottles a day. Except bootcamp, which was 9 weeks. So that brings the total number of days down to 2817. While living in Alaska I didn’t have any, and that was about 4 months. So now we are at 2697 days. And for good measure, let’s take 200 days away, for days I was sick, in route somewhere, or just plain didn’t have any. Keep in mind that this is based on averages. THere were somedays I would drink more, and somedays that I would drink less, and I’m sured I missed a day or two when I didn’t have any at all. So, we have 2497 days of Mountain Dew Drinking…

That would be:
14982 12oz.
4994 20oz. Bottles
279664 Total oz.
2184.875 Gallons
If I saved all the bottles and cans and got the $0.05 deposit on them, I would have $998.80

I have drank enough Mountain Dew to fill some nice sized swimming pools… Now try to tell me I shouldn’t be the new Mountain Dew Spokesman…