What is your education level?

karma · Dec 17, 2015

Echoing another post here concerning trades, it amuses me some that here in the US if you dont give a huge chunk of your money to a higher education system you are looked down on. I have a few friends with several degrees making less money than most welders, and when I ask them why they don't learn a trade they scowl and reply with some disdain for blue collar work. Everyone wants to be managment now even if it means they are stuck at the apple store until a fortune 500 company realizes their value.

Hoss · Dec 17, 2015

anonymous polls are shit.

Cad is a lawyer, isn't he? I thought all lawyers held doctorates (in jurisprudence?), it's just that no lawyer who isn't a clown would call himself Dr. That's probably why he said "technically".

Falstaff · Dec 17, 2015

I have a Masters Degree in Social Work.

and I work in Finance.

Aldarion · Dec 17, 2015

There are still people with less than a bachelors degree?

edit oh, it must be age, right? Hadnt thought about that.

Cad · Dec 17, 2015

Hoss_sl said:
anonymous polls are shit.

Cad is a lawyer, isn't he? I thought all lawyers held doctorates (in jurisprudence?), it's just that no lawyer who isn't a clown would call himself Dr. That's probably why he said "technically".

Yea, technically we are entitled to use the Dr title but nobody does, because it would be foolish. I mean my degree says doctor right on it. Don't know how it's not a doctorate. It's just a professional doctorate rather than a research based one.

OneofOne · Dec 17, 2015

Aldarion_sl said:
There are still people with less than a bachelors degree?

edit oh, it must be age, right? Hadnt thought about that.

My buddy works in sanitation, with zero schooling beyond high school, and makes more than most people on this board. There ARE other routes in life.

Cad · Dec 17, 2015

OneofOne_sl said:
My buddy works in sanitation, with zero schooling beyond high school, and makes more than most people on this board. There ARE other routes in life.

Yea I know a guy who works in waste management too.

Lejina · Dec 17, 2015

BSc Microbiology and then 3 years of military training in electronic and telecoms for the tech qual, which by now is worth about half the credits for a BSc in electrical engineering. Plus a bunch of other certs and quals, I'm pretty much on some sort of course like twice a year.

Tuco · Dec 17, 2015

Borzak_sl said:
I tink everyone should have listed if their education had any relation to their current job.

computer science, robotics. The other thread in the GUF I think called "what do you do" probably has more of that info.

Frenzied Wombat · Dec 17, 2015

BSc in biochemistry and a bunch of IT related certs.

Chanur · Dec 17, 2015

I know in my trade/industry you can make considerably more than the average 4 year degree holder.

Khalan · Dec 17, 2015

I make more than most of my friends with bachelors, and my own degree is collecting dust because my career is unrelated.

Void · Dec 17, 2015

BS in Aeronautical Engineering, never once worked in anything even vaguely related to the field. Much to my, and my parent's, disappointment.

I like to blame the fact that I graduated right after the Berlin Wall fell and aeronautical engineers were unemployed in droves (all true), but let's be honest here and admit that it was mainly because I'm a lazy fuck.

Frenzied Wombat · Dec 17, 2015

Cad_sl said:
Yea, technically we are entitled to use the Dr title but nobody does, because it would be foolish. I mean my degree says doctor right on it. Don't know how it's not a doctorate. It's just a professional doctorate rather than a research based one.

I thought lawyers can't use "doctor", only "esquire".

Borzak · Dec 17, 2015

Aldarion_sl said:
There are still people with less than a bachelors degree?

edit oh, it must be age, right? Hadnt thought about that.

Almost everyone who works in my field has a high school diploma.

All the designers
All the project managers
All the project coordinators
All the detailers (who make shop drawings and average between $60k and $100k)
All the QC and code enforcement people

I know 3 people in my field who make "good" money who have a degree. Two engineers (father and son who own a business) and a VP of operations who has a business degree and spent 10 years working with the shop and field before he moved into his current line of work.

I'm not sure it happens everywhere but I run into a lot of people who went right into a business degree who thought they would magically get hired to run a business 6 months out of school and had no background or hands on experience with said business.

Having said that I have a degree, most people I work with don't know it. I never put it on my resume.

Cad · Dec 17, 2015

Frenzied Wombat_sl said:
I thought lawyers can't use "doctor", only "esquire".

Its not customary to use the Dr. title for lawyers. Many of us would call such lawyers d-bags. But in fact we hold a professional doctorate just like MD's, DO's, DC's, PharmD's, DDS's, OD's... all of whom do customarily go by "Dr." None of them write dissertations either.

But no, I don't go by Dr. and I don't go by Esquire either. Just my name, good enough.

Borzak · Dec 17, 2015

The only people I have known with a PhD that used Dr. in reference to themself were professors.

chaos · Dec 17, 2015

So I am turning in my final paper in AIT 697 tonight (MS class that doubles for MS/BS credit in the program I am in, managing through change leadership) and I am done. So I'm skipping the 6 month waiting period and just marking down BS for thefirst time ever. Feels good man.This time next year I'll have my MS. Then just a lot of debt.

Other than that all I have is a GED.

Frenzied Wombat · Dec 17, 2015

Cad_sl said:
Its not customary to use the Dr. title for lawyers. Many of us would call such lawyers d-bags. But in fact we hold a professional doctorate just like MD's, DO's, DC's, PharmD's, DDS's, OD's... all of whom do customarily go by "Dr." None of them write dissertations either.

But no, I don't go by Dr. and I don't go by Esquire either. Just my name, good enough.

Whenever I see "esquire" on a lawyer's business card or signature my first thought is "Ghost Bar bottle service douche"

General Antony · Dec 17, 2015

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