What is your highest level of education?

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:18 pm

With the recent thread about M. Scott Peck, M.D. going, this question was probably bound to be asked.

It seems to me that in this community we have an unusually high number of people who hold PhDs and other high degrees.

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:19 pm

AAS in Greenhouse/Nursery Management.

And that and my 5-page resume might get me a job at McDonalds.

I've been answering this question a LOT lately filling out job applications.

What I really want is a winning Lottery ticket!!!

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:23 pm

Charlene wrote:AAS in Greenhouse/Nursery Management.

And that and my 5-page resume might get me a job at McDonalds.

I've been answering this question a LOT lately filling out job applications.

What I really want is a winning Lottery ticket!!!

Charlene ..... WLT

I can see it now.

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:30 pm

Wombat wrote:
Charlene wrote:AAS in Greenhouse/Nursery Management.

And that and my 5-page resume might get me a job at McDonalds.

I've been answering this question a LOT lately filling out job applications.

What I really want is a winning Lottery ticket!!!
Charlene ..... WLT

I can see it now.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:30 pm

A bunch of educated city slickers.

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:19 am

Walden wrote:A bunch of educated city slickers.

I may be educated, Walden - but it was bucking hay and shovelling manure out of the barn on a regular basis that gave me the motivation.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:29 am

DCrom wrote: I may be educated, Walden - but it was bucking hay and shovelling manure out of the barn on a regular basis that gave me the motivation.

NEO A&M, eh?

ChrisLaughlin · Post by **ChrisLaughlin** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:38 am

MA - International law and dispute settlement
BA - Anthropology
Certificates - international humanitarian law, international refugee law

moxy · Post by **moxy** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:20 am

Hey, Chris is back in action!! Nice to see ya

I have a bachelor's degree in geological engineering - haven't used it since 1996 though...

And I have a college diploma in piano technology. Also haven't used that, consistently, since I graduated in 1998...

I'm still trying to decide what I want to do when I grow up!!

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:52 am

Thick as a pudd'n'. Dim as a Toc H lamp. Impersonator of two short planks. What was the question again?

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:52 am

Gimme a year and I'll have a bachelors degree.

"some college" for now though I guess.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:24 am

*Pondering* Why don't women get old maids degrees instead of bachelors degrees? Why not mistresses instead of masters degrees?

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:33 am

I started out strong but ran out of steam.

B.S. in geology, 2 1/2 years of graduate school in geophysics and secondary education, 5 years of night school with an AA in accounting.

I had an existential crisis in the middle of my Master's thesis. I got to thinking that I really didn't want to work for an oil company or a mining company, that I was not the "organization man" they were looking for. I thought it over and decided to have a book sale in the lobby of the geology building. I sold my text books at bargain basement prices. I have never regretted that decision.

If you think of your years in college as merely preparation for a job when you get out of school, you may be disappointed to find that, unless you are fortunate, there aren't many jobs that require the skills that you worked so hard to obtain. You also may find that you don't like doing what you have studied to do. In secondary education I remember stories of people who found out on their first day on the job in the high school classroom, facing 30 students who were looking and whispering to each other (and giggling), that there experience was so traumatic that they were'nt able to get through the first day and never entered the classroom again.

However, thinking of my years in college as a great adventure in learning, not merely as a means to an end, I can look back and see those years as some of the best years of my life. However, years later, I am still having anxiety dreams about missed tests and graduation worries.

How about you?

Post by **Dale** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:34 am

Ph.D. in the psychology of small appliance repair. See my upcoming book:

Hearty Beef Stew for the Co-Dependent Small Appliance Repairman.

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:11 am

Walden wrote:*Pondering* Why don't women get old maids degrees instead of bachelors degrees? Why not mistresses instead of masters degrees?

My theory because when the titles were set up, women weren't allowed to go to secondary school.

My university here, UCL, was the first college in England to admit people regardless of religion. This encouraged the other English universities to christen us "the godless institution of Gower Street".

A 'few years' later UCL was the first to admit women as well.

I started in a BA for photojournalism, switched and completed a BS in mechanical engineering, and am nearly through an MA in linguistics. I don't know what I want to be when I grow up, but as I don't plan on ever growing up, hopefully it won't be an issue.