Re: What's been the most valuable course you have taken?

["Michael Maclean" <michael -dot- maclean -at- alcatel -dot- com>]

I would say that the most valuable course that I've taken was an Intro to the
Business of Telecommunications course. I took it in my last semester of
university  and it covered most of the major networking protocols (ATM, IP, TDM)
in a business context. The course sparked an interest in networking and provided
a leg up when I was applying for jobs as a technical writer in the telecom
industry (despite coming out as a business major). It was a head start in
learning the technology I would work on, and more importantly showed that I had a
technical inclination. I'm not sure I would have gotten a technical writing job
out of university, with, a different backgroun, and without experience, without
that course.

I wish I had taken a typing course like a couple of other posters to this thread.
I started as a hunt&peck typist and just got better with practice. I'm still not
as fast as I would like though.


Lois Patterson wrote:

> However, what courses in particular have list members taken that have proven
> immediately useful in actually getting a particular job or contract, or
> increasing your salary/hourly rate? Also, is there any obvious preference
> for knowledge gained from a course as opposed to knowledge gained from
> self-study?
>

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