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Who has a University degree and has it done you any good
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I have 1, and half a dozen work related qualifications equivalent to degree level.
The actual Uni one. I was 30 went I started.
I had to give up my teaching career after a year to care full-time for my son.
I'll still be paying off my students debts after I retire.
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I have one and it has done me well professionally. I was offered jobs due to my strengths using a specific software but the jobs were in Germany and Hong Kong. I didn't really want to leave the country so instead I started my little niche business. I'm by no means raking it in but I love being my own boss and I absolutely love what I do. |
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"I have 2. Can't say it's helped me professionally though"
SS has three Uni degrees, a clutch of Uni diplomas (including one from the University of Hong Kong) and two Memberships.
There is no way that he could be doing his thing without them - in particular one of the Memberships puts him into a sub-specialty of just 0.2% of everybody with the primary Uni qualifications.
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"Never went and had no inclination to go. When I left school I just wanted to work. What I know I’ve learnt on the job "
Same, and quite often when young upstarts with degrees fresh out of uni start at the company there are raised eyebrows and rolled eyes when they start trying to tell those of us who know the job through experience how we should be doing things. |
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over a year ago
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Yes, I have 3 postgraduate degrees and a PhD. What good have they done me? They have simply opened doors. It’s still your personality and abilities that enable you to keep that job. |
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over a year ago
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Yes, though a lot of things I learned back then are way out of date now!
However, I wouldn’t have got to where I am without it. Had a lot of fun doing it |
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over a year ago
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"I couldn’t work without mine
Same. Well not in my chosen field anyway!
I work for myself so I technically could but I wouldn't have a flipping clue what I was doing if i hadn't done my degree  ."
I could work privately too but still not without my qualifications - well... I could give it a bash but it really wouldn’t look good and would be a matter of time before I was reported!   |
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"Never went and had no inclination to go. When I left school I just wanted to work. What I know I’ve learnt on the job
Same, and quite often when young upstarts with degrees fresh out of uni start at the company there are raised eyebrows and rolled eyes when they start trying to tell those of us who know the job through experience how we should be doing things."
It’s a generation taught to be outspoken about ideas and think outside the box. I don’t knock it, just guide them to approach things a little bit more focused |
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My bachelor's degree is in economics and although it's not an absolute must for the work I do it is really helpful when it comes to deep analysis of data, pulling together forecasts, hedging currency, understanding commodity markets.
Its not something I get asked about much (other, shinier qualifications since then) but I don't think I'd be in my current position without it. |
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I came out with a near first for my degree. I was on target for a first but I took up Creative Writing modules and at first my marks dropped a little. This cost me a first, but my marks came up nevertheless and I got a good first for my dissertation. This was for a collection of poems which I had written. I was encouraged to continue as a writer and I have. Graduated when I was forty. I've never looked back. |
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I agree with Incandescent and LucieJo, they get you in to the "club" so to speak, but your own inteligence, will, drive gets you further.
I have 2 Bachelors degrees
A masters
and a PhD.
plus a load of other types of qualifications that you accumulate as you work.
Theres always someone in the company who wants you to do this course or that course.
I was volunteering at a chairty shop setting up an ebay shop for them and was conscripted into doing a data protection act course... I tried to point out I had a PhD in Computer and Software engineering..but to no avail.. lol |
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I have 1,
And other than Qualifying me just to sit an interview It did ffk all for me.
My carpentry papers from years before got me further and stood to me more,
I'm now training interns
And God love these kids, they know their course content, but that there is the end of it,,
Thank God they invented Velcro, cause not sure the youth today can tie their shoe laces,,
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I’ve not got one - although I received all my further education in the RAF, having discipline instilled by them at a young age, being “volunteered” for future opportunities took me to every continent - once I left I had 4 different companies trying to acquire my specific skill set.
Degrees do add value and are essential to certain professions, but they are not the be all and end to working lives. |
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"I have 1,
And other than Qualifying me just to sit an interview It did ffk all for me.
My carpentry papers from years before got me further and stood to me more,
I'm now training interns
And God love these kids, they know their course content, but that there is the end of it,,
Thank God they invented Velcro, cause not sure the youth today can tie their shoe laces,,
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Correct me if I'm wrong here but I assume their course content which you say they know well is what is taught by a college but the practical skills you imply they lack is the part you are supposed to be training them in? |
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The subject of my degree (music) hasn't helped me in my IT career, surprisingly. However, it was an opportunity to get out of school, which I hated, and get in with a different and more diverse group of people. I kind of found myself at university.
Fortunately for me it was in a time when I could do it without being saddled with debt for years.
Luke |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have 2, Masters in Engineering and Masters in Materials Science.
Both done as a mature student, both paid for by a former employer.
They've opened doors, that's it. I wouldn't be in the position I am now without hard work and dedication, the degrees are secondary. |
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over a year ago
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I have a degree and it hasn't directly helped me in my current work but has definitely helped indirectly. I learned a lot at uni and it changed the way I thought about things. |
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By *dinMan
over a year ago
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yes and yes. helps with the first job potentially as a minimum requirment but beyond that it is about yourself, personality and real world experience.
that said there are a lot of waste of space degrees from crap universities out there where the students would have been better off going into work or getting an apprenticeship |
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By *otsossieMan
over a year ago
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I use mine every day at work although I did hire a junior who self taught off the internet.
Partly through tech test scores and partly for his attitude and willingness to graft and learn.
But not all employers are as lovely as me  |
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over a year ago
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I used mine to get into my career...but 12 years into my career, at the level I’m at, companies ask for it but don’t actually check it—they’re more interested in the experience I have.
Plus I did mine just before the tuition fees went to stupid levels so was able to pay my own way through without a loan—just working. |
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