What is your highest level of education?

[lunalum]

AA in Behavioral and Social Science, still chugging along to that BA in Psych, it'll happen soon....

 

[Coriolis]

Maaan I feel dumb compared to all of you guys having only received my highschool diploma. I just want to have a driving career though, probably taxi for a few years until I can save up for a course that gets me into long haul trucking.. Yes long hours alone which may not be the best for my personality, however the money is worth it, and I really love being out on the open road.. On top of all those hours alone, from what I've read, it's a job with plenty of interaction to be had, just all with strangers.

One of my friends is a trucker. He actually turned to that when laid off from a teaching job, because the pay was good. After 15 years, now, he says enough is enough. Too much time away from his family, and he wants to do something different. He has been using those evenings in hotels on the road to take online classes for some IT job - I think network management. It might be worth keeping something like this in the back of your mind once you settle into trucking. By that I mean think ahead to the day when you might get tired of it for whatever reason, and have a couple of alternatives or backup plans.

 

[entropie]

One of my friends is a trucker. He actually turned to that when laid off from a teaching job, because the pay was good. After 15 years, now, he says enough is enough. Too much time away from his family, and he wants to do something different. He has been using those evenings in hotels on the road to take online classes for some IT job - I think network management. It might be worth keeping something like this in the back of your mind once you settle into trucking. By that I mean think ahead to the day when you might get tired of it for whatever reason, and have a couple of alternatives or backup plans.

Same just happened to me with a double degree in engineering. I am more intrested in becoming a trucker actually atm. Your logic lacks holistic wisdom !

 

[EcK]

Officially? Masters degree in economics with major in international trade and business strategy.
But i ve spent much more time learning on my own on a plethora of other topics.

I d basically only show up for the exams. Pass. Move on. Got my pretty piece of paper at the end of the 5-year masters and voila.

 

[EcK]

Is self study regarded as education?! Sometimes the world is stupid.. You get that paper called certification yet it's just only in paper, you're not really that knowledgeable in a certain area unless you really apply it.
Certificates are bullshit

Well yes. People who see studies as something else than paying for a paper that ll make it easier to be taken seriously are .. strange to me. I mean I'd always learn several times faster by studying on my own and sitting in a class for 3 hours seems to be a girl thing. It s so damn boring.

I remember missing a whole semester of business strategy classes - i showed up for the last class where the teacher summarized the whole semester in 30 min at the begining of the class. I went to the text without studying the week after, finished it in 1/3rd of the time and got the top mark in my school. It puzzles me why they make the classes so long- i d just zone out after 5 min as every class was so horribly slow going. Or why they insist on learning crap by heart rather than just give us the "mental tools" necessary for that field. As everyone should know from experience that you forget all that crap within 2 weeks after the exam anyway.

 

[Cellmold]

Well yes. People who see studies as something else than paying for a paper that ll make it easier to be taken seriously are .. strange to me. I mean I'd always learn several times faster by studying on my own and sitting in a class for 3 hours seems to be a girl thing. It s so damn boring.

I remember missing a whole semester of business strategy classes - i showed up for the last class where the teacher summarized the whole semester in 30 min at the begining of the class. I went to the text without studying the week after, finished it in 1/3rd of the time and got the top mark in my school. It puzzles me why they make the classes so long- i d just zone out after 5 min as every class was so horribly slow going. Or why they insist on learning crap by heart rather than just give us the "mental tools" necessary for that field. As everyone should know from experience that you forget all that crap within 2 weeks after the exam anyway.

Probably something to do with relying on standards for a majority.

I imagine you are atypical to most of the people taking these classes. They probably require that class environment in order to give them something to focus on as in their spare time i observe that a lot of people are prone to being distracted quite easily.

I find it hard to efficiently absorb information myself, but that's a combination of anxiety and confidence issues which are an ongoing situation for which I've created skills to manage them.
And then many other people simply are nervous about failure and every day problems because their brains are conditioned (whether nature from inherited traits or quirk of genes/nurture by means of socialised fears transferred from parents and other environmental elements when growing up) so they probably put way too much importance on that bit of paper because the anxiety overrules their thinking and the classroom is a comforter.

You do make a good point though: how much time could be saved by simply trimming out the fat of the lesson and hollowing it out to the essentials?

PS: As an aside I've learnt far more from educating myself then when i was at school, but sometimes i think i do need a bit of guidance.

 

[Starry]

I mean I'd always learn several times faster by studying on my own and sitting in a class for 3 hours seems to be a girl thing. It s so damn boring.

Now that I'm officially a dude... I'd like to thank my fellow men folk for keeping the ladies in mind centuries prior to allowing them to attend university.

 

[mooseantlers]

One of my friends is a trucker. He actually turned to that when laid off from a teaching job, because the pay was good. After 15 years, now, he says enough is enough. Too much time away from his family, and he wants to do something different. He has been using those evenings in hotels on the road to take online classes for some IT job - I think network management. It might be worth keeping something like this in the back of your mind once you settle into trucking. By that I mean think ahead to the day when you might get tired of it for whatever reason, and have a couple of alternatives or backup plans.

I'm well aware of that main reason that many people are driven out of that industry for, in that case though, i'd likely seek another driving job that keeps me in my home (around my family if I have one..) City bus drivers make a decent union wage with benefits, same with front end bin trucks, I'm gonna do taxis for a few years to start since the license is easier to obtain. There's actually a very wide array of different driving careers aside from long haul trucking and I have enough of a passion for driving that I'd definitely be interested in trying more than one of them.

 

[Neal Caffreynated]

I'm in my Senior Year of college in Art History and Archeology

 

[CoffeeEnthusiast]

2nd year of college, studying Law! This term (4 months) I'm on Civil law II, Constitutional law, Sociology and English II. In total I have seven books to read, 75 sentences to analyse and several assignments. Delightful, eh

 

[Mikosan77]

I have my B.S. in Biological Sciences, going for an A.A. in Medical Laboratory Technology after a few years of being an clinical lab scientist I may pursue a master's degree in biomedical engineering.

 

[Smilephantomhive]

Graduating HS in 15 days

 

[Thisica]

I'm on the verge of earning my Masters in Medical Physics. I am a few weeks away from submitting my thesis.

(It's been a long time, since those undergraduate days when I last posted, in 2011-2012... )

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

2L of law school.

 

[Tiger Owl]

I should have a PhD in accumulating student debt:
GED
Associates of Science, Health Sciences
Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Sciences
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
12 years in and still watching the interest on loans creeping ever higher.

 

[Totenkindly]

I only have a B.A. in English
- minor in Mathematics

I also had a lot of computer experience, coming out of college, despite only having a few courses -- I had even been paid to program for the Computer Research Lab my last summer or two there. Plus over the years, I've taken a course here or there that can provide college credits; and I've also had tech courses related to my career.

Not really a shock I've spent my career in technical/computer documentation, some programming, and now systems analysis.

 

[great_bay]

I just have one semester up my sleeves. I just wanting for the next semester to start.

 

[Lucy_Ricardo]

I have a B. A. in English Literature with a minor in Political Science, and I then went to law school and earned my Juris Doctor. I sometimes wish I hadn't gone to law school, but I wouldn't trade my undergraduate experience for the world.

 

[Bush]

Also, I'm technically pursuing a psych degree. I'm only a course or two into it, and it's been on hold for a couple of years. But I've found that "Currently pursuing a masters in [a thing that paints me as a well-rounded individual who is eager to learn or whatever]" is pretty good resume material anyway. So I have no idea if I'll finish it, because I don't know if there'd be much difference between "pursuing" and "have" at this point.

I generally don't like having big things like that just lingering out there, but in this case it's hard to care.

 

[Coriolis]

Also, I'm technically pursuing a psych degree. I'm only a course or two into it, and it's been on hold for a couple of years. But I've found that "Currently pursuing a masters in [a thing that paints me as a well-rounded individual who is eager to learn or whatever]" is pretty good resume material anyway. So I have no idea if I'll finish it, because I don't know if there'd be much difference between "pursuing" and "have" at this point.

I generally don't like having big things like that just lingering out there, but in this case it's hard to care.

I'm done with school. Just. Done. The things I learn now, I teach myself.