I don't know that having the BS helped me or not after I had a few years of experience. It sounds like a BS alone isn't enough to be taken seriously in Security. Dont really know. It is my understanding that the Baby Boomers were called such because they were a big population jump following ww2. I think nationalized (aka socialized) healthcare has more issues than population changes. Personal opinion, but I'd trust a collective influence of individual decisions more than a centralized generalization by a few pushing influence over the rest of a society. Stated another way, I trust my own opinions for my own life and my family's rather than handing it over to someone in DC who doesn't know me and only really cares for continuing their pay and power with no responsibility. Admittedly, both ways have their issues. -j ----- Original Message ---- From: Joshua Zeidner To: Main PLUG discussion list Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:16:15 PM Subject: Re: security, encryption, and healthcare On 2/27/07, Josh Coffman wrote: > Excellent, Josh! > Guessing my Math B.S. doesn't get me anywhere, and I'd understand that. > It's just a B.S.; and I was too tired of being poor to accept the masters program offer. d'oh! > Sounds like some other certifications would be helpful. Personally, I don't think I have the time. :( It is a telling sign that a B.S. no longer gets you anywhere... > > So Healthcare is growing, but how does that affect IT? Well, where the money goes, IT goes... but that is not necessarily going to change things for IT people. I would think that some background in healthcare would be marketable, but health agencies manage things in the same way as any other type of organization and IT people typically arent directly involved in the administration. One thing I have found is that managers will sometimes view domain specific knowledge negatively, because it is threatening to their position. Typically managers want highly technical people who are just simply going to fulfill technical requests and don't have the possibility of getting involved with the actual administration of the particular business. > I think it will become a bubble, and a big one... > The large, aging sectors of our society will create an increased demand for health services. (Also, seems > like so many people of various ages have 2-3 prescriptions for misc things.) so they say, but the problem is that the younger working people are going to pay for it. Health 'insurance' is not really insurance in the classical sense, its a financial scheme that promotes the sale of certain types of services, and allows for creative payment structures. Im not really sure why we have any more of an 'aging population' than we have ever had( did the older generation have less kids? ). It always seems like healthcare hooplah to me. Its not hard to figure out why the Healthcare industry wants to promote this future of millions of old people hooked up to expensive devices and taking costly medications. These are the types of issues that prohibit national health care plans... jmz ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss