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What's your highest degree earned ?

What's your highest degree earned?

  • Didn't graduate from high school

    Votes: 2 3.2%

  • high school diploma

    Votes: 13 21.0%

  • Bachelors

    Votes: 16 25.8%

  • Masters

    Votes: 21 33.9%

  • Ph.D

    Votes: 6 9.7%

  • Professional (Law/Medical)

    Votes: 4 6.5%
  • Total voters
    62
MRes from University of Amsterdam - just need some funding now to upgrade that shit to PhD, unless any of you suckers wanna pay for more research into homosexuality, masculinity and sports!

dpnice said:
B.Ed from Oxford University.
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Not an MA (Oxon) then?
 
JohnnyAnger said:
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Not an MA (Oxon) then?
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Would have been nice but would have meant following the normal route of 4 yrs at university.

The B.Ed (Oxon) was the only opportunity open to us lowly teacher training students.
 
Bachelor's degree. I regret every second I spent in college. Total waste of time.
 
TheLoveableLoner said:
Bachelor's degree. I regret every second I spent in college. Total waste of time.
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Me too. I got a BA in Psych and am currently not using it. A big part of me doesn't care enough to become an actual counselor, and another part of me feels I should just grow up and go back to school simply to increase my job opportunities. If I could go back and do it again, I'd get a different degree tho...
 
MrPerfectMan said:
Me too. I got a BA in Psych and am currently not using it. A big part of me doesn't care enough to become an actual counselor, and another part of me feels I should just grow up and go back to school simply to increase my job opportunities. If I could go back and do it again, I'd get a different degree tho...
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Don't blame college. Blame the degree. I know about 2 dozen people with art degree. Only 3 use their degrees as teachers. The rest work minimum wage jobs.

When they tell you in college that you should do what you wan no matter what people tell you, they lied.
 
zombiekiller said:
Don't blame college. Blame the degree. I know about 2 dozen people with art degree. Only 3 use their degrees as teachers. The rest work minimum wage jobs.

When they tell you in college that you should do what you wan no matter what people tell you, they lied.
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Yes, it's really only smart to go to college for a degree that will land you the jobs to make the big bucks. Otherwise don't waste too much time taking classes on things you actually enjoy. lol
 
MrPerfectMan said:
Yes, it's really only smart to go to college for a degree that will land you the jobs to make the big bucks. Otherwise don't waste too much time taking classes on things you actually enjoy. lol
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Well, I'm not saying don't take classes you enjoy. Like everything else in life, this isn't all or nothing.

I'm 30 and I've gone through 3 professional careers and 1 business. I started out as a programmer. Then I became a cop. Then I started a business... that failed. And now I'm an engineer.

What I've learned from my experiences is there's always room to seek out what you enjoy while working for a living. When I was a programmer, I almost went crazy coding and debugging. And yet nowadays I make a few thousand a month from revenue generated by my apps that I enjoy working on while working full time in engineering.

What's stupid is putting all your eggs in one basket, especially if there's no job for that basket. They really should teach people this in college.
 
I do want to point out one minor discrepancy with the poll; and, that being that a Bachelor of Architecture degree is considered a "professional" degree just like a doctor or lawyer degree. In fact, any licensed professional (i.e. architect, landscape architect, structural engineer, civil engineer, etc.) that is required to have a degree in order to be licensed is considered a professional :D
 
I had 2 associate degrees from each 2 years college, that made me a Bachelor then :?
 
zombiekiller said:
Don't blame college. Blame the degree. I know about 2 dozen people with art degree. Only 3 use their degrees as teachers. The rest work minimum wage jobs.

When they tell you in college that you should do what you wan no matter what people tell you, they lied.
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Uhhhhhhh... No. I have a degree in Computer And Information Sciences because it was "in demand" and I was good at it in college. I'd KILL to trade that in for an art degree, because at least it's be better at something I like doing.

I haven't had one programming job since I left college, because it makes me miserable.
 
I got a B.S., then an A.A., then another B.S. and stopped after I got an M.S. I used my first B.S and worked in that field for some years. Changed course, and got an Associate's full-time and a B.S in the second career area at nite...ugh! Got the M.S. the discipline and use it every day. I have hours toward an M.B.A, but that went off track with the job that was paying for it. I like school, but after the 12 trillion hours spent on the M.S. across 4 years, I have sworn off. Now my interests have turned back to the physiology and anatomy of the male reproductive system....lol
 
TheLoveableLoner said:
Uhhhhhhh... No. I have a degree in Computer And Information Sciences because it was "in demand" and I was good at it in college. I'd KILL to trade that in for an art degree, because at least it's be better at something I like doing.

I haven't had one programming job since I left college, because it makes me miserable.
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Please read my post #28. I had a programming job and it made me miserable also. Nowadays, I treat it more as a hobby and it still earns me money.

If you really really really wanted to get an art degree, then kudos to you. I'm just saying most people I know with art degree work unskilled jobs that pay minimum wage or close to it. I even dated one guy that had a masters in art. He was a barista at starbucks then, and he's still at starbucks nowadays.
 
zombiekiller said:
...most people I know with art degree work unskilled jobs that pay minimum wage or close to it. I even dated one guy that had a masters in art. He was a barista at starbucks then, and he's still at starbucks nowadays.
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I think this situation may have a lot to do with your geographic location. I have no idea where you and your "art-degreed" friends reside in this world, but I think your location plays a significant role in available career choices.

For example, someone who wishes to be an actor on Broadway would obviously wish to reside in or near New York City. Your friends may need to move closer to, or in, an area of the country or world which appreciates and cultivates individuals with artistic interests.
 
zombiekiller said:
If you really really really wanted to get an art degree, then kudos to you. I'm just saying most people I know with art degree work unskilled jobs that pay minimum wage or close to it. I even dated one guy that had a masters in art. He was a barista at starbucks then, and he's still at starbucks nowadays.
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What are you on about? So many of the world leaders and business leaders are arts graduates. Anyway happiness and contentment is always much much more important than potential monetary gains in the world. University is about learning critical skills and growing as an adult - these things will get you ahead in life if you can show this, not choosing a degree that might lead directly to a job.
 
I agree with JonnyAnger; the time spent learning is more important than the final result.
 
JohnnyAnger said:
What are you on about? So many of the world leaders and business leaders are arts graduates. Anyway happiness and contentment is always much much more important than potential monetary gains in the world. University is about learning critical skills and growing as an adult - these things will get you ahead in life if you can show this, not choosing a degree that might lead directly to a job.
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I certainly didn't plan to be a world leader. In fact, almost everyone in the world never became a world leader.

Like the old saying goes, hope for the best, plan for the worst.

Not every college dropout will become the next bill gates.
 
Things other than book learning at university are life lessons such as managing your finances, negotiating your way home inebriated, and fending for yourself when you face the possibility of no fresh underwear by Friday and you need to do the laundry. Learning to cook or face another can of beans or instant noodle. I think character building is a very important thing you gained whilst in university.
 
zombiekiller said:
I certainly didn't plan to be a world leader. In fact, almost everyone in the world never became a world leader.

Like the old saying goes, hope for the best, plan for the worst.

Not every college dropout will become the next bill gates.
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I didn't mean for you to take it literally that every arts graduate would become a world leader, just you were saying we are all a bunch of bitches that can do nothing in life because we made the awful decision to do a subject we enjoy rather than one that simply leads to a job.
 
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