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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 4924650" data-attributes="member: 360">Hmm. I picked up a Computer Science degree in early 1999 (should have been 1998, but a bit of sophomore year slacking and changing my major from EE to CS added a semester), and worked mostly as an in-house web developer until the end of 2008. My job description got kind of fuzzy after we were acquired by a company that outsources most of their development work, even fuzzier after the transition work was done, and then was laid off at the end of April. Since then I've mostly been out of work; I thought I had a job last month, and even worked for a bit, but that disappeared in a contract dispute. But now I'm doing some consulting for the people who are doing my old job.I've toyed with the idea of going back to school from time to time, but a graduate CS degree is pretty much useless outside of academia or research-oriented work (or to signal you know what you're doing when your undergrad degree is not in CS). Certifications tend to become obsolete quickly. And I can't talk myself into getting an MBA.</blockquote>