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Subject:Re: musing about degree requirements From:Hillary Jones <hillary -at- NICHIMEN -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 21 Jul 1997 15:51:49 -0700
> >Nevertheless, I believe we will see more degree requirements from pubs
> >managers and HR directors, not because they are *lamebrained* but because
> >the profession, as it continues to mature, will begin holding to stricter
> >requirements for entry, in keeping with older, more established fields.
> >
> What Don says is probably true and even inevitable, but we don't have to
> like it. "Rage, rage, against the dying of the light," eh, Don?
Or we can like it a lot! "Die light die! Die light die!"
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