Teach at a Community College
There&#x27;s sometimes a stigma, which we should get rid of.<p>First, I had <i>great</i> instructors at Portland Community College.<p>Also, in addition to what I learned there, an area company (Tektronix spinoff) happened to put a job post there for a co-op student, and it turned out to be a great company, doing big things, which launched my career.<p>After later working and then going to fancy-pants schools, one day a professor dissed community colleges to me.  I thought the professor was wrong and out of line, so I talked constructively with them about that.  But I still felt bad, and didn&#x27;t need the stigma in those particular circles, so I removed community college from my Web CV.<p>When I was finally making a LinkedIn, I found one of my instructors from community college on there, and wrote them a note, thanking them, and telling them how helpful and important their teaching had been to me.<p>Maybe the next day, I realized I&#x27;d left community college off my LinkedIn, and the instructor might&#x27;ve seen that.  So I added it back on, and have kept it on.<p>Community college is for people who want to better themselves, and, for whatever reason (I suspect usually involving socioeconomic circumstances) they aren&#x27;t (yet?) at a more expensive college or university.<p>When I&#x27;m hiring, I see a lot of MIT&#x2F;Stanford&#x2F;Ivy on resumes, but I also pay as much attention to resumes from people who went to other schools, or who took some other path through their circumstances.