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Old 08-31-2011, 11:53 PM
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not necessarily. with 0 job experience, any "knowledge" is just speculation. what does knowing the difference between the fields do anyway. 90% of the time u end up doing whatever field you entered first for your entire career.
My boss really wanted me to speculate though. He asked me a couple weeks in how the job was comparing to my expectations. He didn't really like hearing me tell him that due to my complete ignorance I came into the job without any expectations apart from: "it happens in a cubicle, and I use Excel and SAS". "But you must have had some..."
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