i disagree to a certain extend with Garry.. but not altogether..and since this is non tech in focus ..

So my first real job in IT after getting the fabled MCSE pre y2k was to give basic computer training to people that never seen computers before - you can blame Apartheid or just lack of opportunities. So i needed to slowly teach them- like boiling frogs analogy .

So Monday, we discuss where the base of the computer is.. what it does.. by Friday they can do graphs in excel, are competent in Word etc.. with a tertiary certificate 🙂 awsume!

So one of the things that we have to embrace is in IT is continues learning.. Where i agree with Garry - with a classical degree in accounting after you have your degree your classical training is mostly done (Down here we do have points these days that professionals need to get every year - accountants, doctors etc)

In IT our strength is our knowledge.

So i try and teach developers the consequences of bad SQL at work.. there will likely never be money again to fix it. And everybody will build on to it.. Fortunately our dev team are grayish in hair color..