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What is the highest level of education you have attained?

What is the highest level of education you have attained?

  • Doctorate Degree (MD, PhD)

    Votes: 2 3.4%

  • Graduate Degree (including MBA, JD)

    Votes: 16 27.6%

  • Bachelor's Degree

    Votes: 24 41.4%

  • Associates Degree or Trade Certificate

    Votes: 5 8.6%

  • High School Diploma / GED

    Votes: 8 13.8%

  • Didn't finish High School

    Votes: 3 5.2%
  • Total voters
    58
bigb said:
If you think all manual labor is mindless work, you're a bigger @#!*% than most of us thought. I am a manual laborer but it is far from mindless. As an electrician, my mind is constantly working to remember the codes that I have to follow, the rules for the different types of construction that I do, and I have to figure out the best/easiest/cheapest way to do every job. And I have to do all of this without a computer. In fact, I would bet that my mind is just active while at work than most of the people on this board (probably more active in your case). But thanks for being a @#!*% anyway.
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First, I wouldn't consider electricians to be manual laborers. Second, go **** yourself (and trout, too) and quit being such sensitive bitches.
 
Just to be clear, manual labor to me is something you can do and spend 90+% of the time thinking of something else. You're not mentally engaged whatsoever. There's a beauty to that. It's why some people like pulling weeds or maybe running. And that's not a slap in the face to anyone unless you are a sensitive little girl I guess.

I don't care what you do in this life. Ultimate success for a job to me is just being really good at what you do whether that is washing dishes or performing surgery.

Those two nancies can still **** off though. Cripes.
 
CONAN said:
Well, I don't know that too many people enjoy school. It's a necessary evil to some extent. I took a few years off in between high school and college. If anything that made me see the need for college even more. Hats off for all you manual labor guys (there is something to be said for mindless work) but it's not for me.
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I only attended about 2 months of college before I decided to quit and jumped into entrepreneurial interests. I don't do manual labor (not that there's anything wrong with that) and what I have done is anything but mindless. Not boasting, just sayin'.
 
PKM said:
I only attended about 2 months of college before I decided to quit and jumped into entrepreneurial interests. I don't do manual labor (not that there's anything wrong with that) and what I have done is anything but mindless. Not boasting, just sayin'.
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I don't see how any of that is boasting.:confused:

I'm not a big fan of that route. I need structure. For me teaching gives me structure but also plenty of autonomy. At the cost of money obviously.

If I was that type I'd probably avoid school, too. Most guys in my neighborhood own their own business. What I usually see work best with that area is to go ahead and jump in and then go back to school later if needed. My wife makes 3 times as much as me and I'm not even sure she has her Associates.
 
CONAN said:
My wife makes 3 times as much as me and I'm not even sure she has her Associates.
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I'm sure you were just exaggerating to make a point, but it would be truly sad for anyone to not know something so basic about their spouse.
 
Barely finished highschool. Graduated with associates with excellent grades. Finished a bachleors. Which I feel like has at least qualified to me for a job that requires saying "Would you like fried with that?"
 
BS in Marketing, I hated it but finished just because I got so far into it. I didn't learn anything, it just qualifies me for those who hire.
 
HipHopAnonymous said:
Barely finished highschool. Graduated with associates with excellent grades. Finished a bachleors. Which I feel like has at least qualified to me for a job that requires saying "Would you like fried with that?"
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I'm starting to think a degree is worthless and and a total waste of time and money. The U of U requires at least an associates and preferably a bachelors for a job making $13-$16 an hour. WTF? You can make that much working in a call center. Jobs making $30K a year require a bachelors. Spending at least 4 years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars for $30K a year?!? Something is seriously wrong here.
 
Scat said:
I'm starting to think a degree is worthless and and a total waste of time and money. The U of U requires at least an associates and preferably a bachelors for a job making $13-$16 an hour. WTF? You can make that much working in a call center. Jobs making $30K a year require a bachelors. Spending at least 4 years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars for $30K a year?!? Something is seriously wrong here.
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The interesting thing about degrees is that their usefulness covers the whole spectrum. There are some occupations that you just can't do without a degree. There are plenty of brillant businessmen who dropped out of college or never went in the first place.
 
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