Thread: Show us Your Degree!

Wow, I'm impressed (seriously). You can drive super-tankers.

In my mind there are two types of degree; the professional degree and the slacker degree.

Professional degrees include, Doctors, Lawyers, Architects, Vets, the Sciences and so on.

Slackers degrees include, Sociology, Art, Teaching, and things like that.

Most of my mates who went to uni learnt about big debts, drugs and getting laid.

I was educated with a banana and a bicycle pump.

The fact is life and work are competitive. I think when I went to Uni only about 5% of school leavers were going into tertiary education so it was a big plus to have a degree. Now the number is about 50% so everyone has a degree but you're stuffed if you don't as you can't get your foot in the door for well paying jobs.

^ so what about a scientist with a teaching degree?

slacker or no??

Degree, or no degree. All corporate culture is ruled by the Peter Principle, which states:-

Everybody gets promoted to their own level of incompetence.

Originally Posted by mrT

so what about a scientist with a teaching degree?

I think all Aussies enter the slacker category, so I wouldn't bother trying to split hairs mate.

Originally Posted by mrT

A bit like a celibate trying to tell you that sex is a bad idea.

well i think Diaw and Macha were.... hence the comment. most others posters not an issue.

Don't misunderstand me, please...






... sex is a great idea...

Originally Posted by Sir Burr

Wow, I'm impressed (seriously). You can drive super-tankers.

Thats is a Master Mariners ticket.I think he has to be certified for VLCC's,but I'm not sure.

Originally Posted by stroller

That he has a degree and you haven't!

actually stroller has a top degree dont you stroll.?

its a degree with first class honer's in " cockology. "

just taking the piss mate so stop friggin crying will you.

jeez mate. the boys club and such.

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

Originally Posted by Whiteshiva

And I think you would need to have one to be qualified to state an opinion on the subject

Arrogance again. Going to school four years and getting a piece of paper is no guarantee teh recipient achieve anything more than going to school. People that tend to think having a degree is proof of a something tend be among the slackers and under-achievers you need to wade through to find someone worth hiring.

Wresting applicable knowledge out of whatever manner of education you have and applying it is an achievement. Post grad work? Writing a thesis? Achievement.

Originally Posted by Whiteshiva

the opposite is rather difficult.

And this? Complete poppycock.

i know a few loosers that have been to university and they got frig all, but there real smart at mathmatics and using all those real big words.

boring bastards actually.

speak in tongues, sit on there arse counting beans but real smart with computers.

give me somone who has spent his life travelling and interacting with real people, schooled in the way of life.

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

And this? Complete poppycock.

Perhaps it's difficult for non-degree-holders to establish what the opposite of "You can be educated without having received a degree" is?

I qualified as a translator/interpreter.
The diploma is only proof that you've put in the required number of hours of study and passed the exam.
After that, you start to learn the real requirements of the job.
The diploma says nothing about your practical proficiency, special interpreting abilities like speed and intuition or the their influence on the results you turn in.
And you have to practice daily like a musician or athlete so as not to lose your edge.
IMO, the piece of paper is worthless in terms of judging your real ability.

Slimboy was not being entirely honest about his degree......

^ that'd be right!

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

Originally Posted by Whiteshiva

And I think you would need to have one to be qualified to state an opinion on the subject

Arrogance again. Going to school four years and getting a piece of paper is no guarantee teh recipient achieve anything more than going to school. People that tend to think having a degree is proof of a something tend be among the slackers and under-achievers you need to wade through to find someone worth hiring.

Actually I think you are the one displaying arrogance (and heaps of ignorance) here, thinking that people who lack education or degrees are somehow superior to those who have taken the time to study. Some people with degrees may look down upon those who do not have any, but the great majority do not.

And the majority of slackers and under-achievers I have met have not taken higher education. That is not saying that their lack of education is the reason for these guys being losers, it is rather the effect.

Let me summon up my take on this subject:

1) Losers do not get degrees (simply because they are losers, and not the other way around)
2) Lots of people who do not get degrees are clever, knowledgeble, hard working and successful at what they are doing.
3) Getting a degree is no guarantee of success, although it may certainly improve your odds.

So chill out FF, and stop being so hard on yourself!

I passed with honors at the school of hard knocks the greatest education anyone can have

Originally Posted by Whiteshiva

3) Getting a degree is no guarantee of success, although it may certainly improve your odds.

I reckon that sums it up.

For the record I don't look down on those hopeless wankers with only one or even no degree at all. They have my full support.

You don't need a degree to be successful, you need hunger,drive and ambition and that is something you can't be taught.I have a degree but have never done any work in that field, The fact that I have a degree has maybe given people who I have dealt with a little more confidence in me, maybe not.
Is this arguement about education or class divide? some people with degrees tend to think that they fill a more important role in society.

I have done a 180 degree many a time...