Reply #17: Firstly: 'are you experienced?' reminds me of Hendrix, still; to my mind, Obama supporters seem...

[bridgit]

inexperienced, with many very willing to; forget for a moment 'The KoolAid', they're ready to "drink the sand". And so willing to discount experience as an important factor i.e. "inexperience", if you will, as a self & pre-justifying means to an end we cannot see from here. Let alone imagine.

Secondly, experience is important. Employers respond favorably to applicants that are able to illustrate a contiguous, experiential job history. Not that education is unimportant, but that short of extenuating circumstance such as: nepotism, cronyism, racial/socio-economic quotas and the like, and with two people standing before two applications; both with educational credentials, the one with the more applicable experience will be considered more completely.

I was accepted into UCLA's scholarship program (not having the money to participate) in no small measure in that I'd been reading to & serving the poor & homeless & the elderly communities here in my town since I was pre-teen. Other programs as well, though this is not about me, and I only mention as a way to illustrate. I know my experience was a factor, because the board told me so across the table with my application between us.

There are plenty that get where they are going with little or no experience i.e. g.w. bush, "Brownie yer do'n a heck of a job!" - Brown, etc...

And I do have empathy for some that feel combing their pony's tail all afternoon with their cell phone in hand; will be enough experience under certain circumstances.