What is your education level?

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.

I have a Masters Degree in Social Work.

and I work in Finance.

There are still people with less than a bachelors degree?

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

Aldarion_sl said:

There are still people with less than a bachelors degree?

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

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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.

BSc in biochemistry and a bunch of IT related certs.

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

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.

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

Aldarion_sl said:

There are still people with less than a bachelors degree?

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

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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