In the summer of 2010 I applied for a job, for which I was over-qualified apart from the small fact that the employer required someone with a degree, which at this time I do not have. I was refused an interview because of this one little omission, it seemed that my 28 years of proven industry experience counted for nothing.
So vowing that this would never happen to me again, and with the added incentives of my age and economic climate likely to count against me if I was to find myself in a similar position in the future, I decided to take positive action.
So, I registered for my first Open University modules, my cunning plan being to do a combined degree of Computing + another subject, my thought being that I'd breeze through the computing parts, and focus my efforts on the other subject, thereby being able to take on a larger workload than otherwise I would have been able to.
So, to cut a long story, B67 Computing + Maths is what I'm doing. (Originally it was B14, but the curriculum changed, so I switched). I started in October 2010, and this blog will track my progress and other related nonsense.
