What is your education level?

What level of schooling do you have?

  • Some High School

    Votes: 16 1.8%

  • High School/GED

    Votes: 116 13.1%

  • Working on/have a Graduate Degree

    Votes: 396 44.7%

  • Working on/have a Masters/Law degree/MD

    Votes: 283 31.9%

  • Working on/have PHD or above

    Votes: 75 8.5%
  • Total voters
    886
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Law student, Cooley Law. Anyone who has a problem with my choice of law school can keep it to themselves. It was free, local, and flexible.
 
So it looks like 85% of us either have or are working on a graduate degree? Given the original poster's theory coupled with the poll results, I fully expect to be able to buy a machine gun soon without taking my ID out of my pocket or signing anything.
 
Have a High School Diploma, but I'm self-educated through my own reading mostly.

I like history, philosophy, religion, military stuff, science....whatever, you know?
There's a whole lot of people here seem to be the same way.
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Agreed. HS only, but I retired self-made at 45 without "benefit" of settlement, lottery, or inheritance.

Education and motivation, while not mutually exclusive, are not synonyms. Those with the thirst can self-educate in many subjects, including (perhaps especially) business.

Conversely, there are many with degrees who have no clue "what they want to be when they grow up", who then simply follow the path of least resistance in choosing and "furthering" a career.

That said...I vastly prefer that any medical doctors, attorneys, accountants etc. from which I buy services, actually have specialized formal education in their field. I might like Jethro Bodine's enthusiasm, but he wouldn't be my first choice were I to need brain surgery. ;-)
 
I am getting up in years and have decided that my education level, my income, and my skin color are no one's concern but my own. I have worked with college grads that were very smart and with some that couldn't scratch their backsides without some one showing them where. Same goes for people that didn't go to college and some that didn't even finish high school. Just because you have a college education doesn' make you smarter than some one who doesn't. Makes it easier for you to get a job though.
 
B.A. in philosophy and German, 1/2 a M.A. in psych but didn't finish and a J.D., now a practicing attorney.
 
Makes it easier for you to get a job though.
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That is the #1 reason why I am in the process of getting my degree's. There are a lot of fields now that you cannot even get a foot in the door without a degree. If you can get a foot in the door, a lot of companies have education requirements for promotions beyond a certain pay grade.

I finished up my BS this last December and I am going to finish my MS this December (provided all is well with my thesis). I took 10 years off from school because I had the attitude that school didn't help a bit. I am a bit older and wiser now.

I have worked various jobs (in the IT field) and to be honest will probably take a pay cut when I get out with my degree (my last job paid extremely well for the area). But in the end I will not be hamstrung by my lack of a degree and my chances for promotion should be better than before. If they are not, I got to take a few years off of work, I got to spend time with my wife/kids, and I will be doing something that I really enjoy.
 
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BridgeWalker:

Cooley is actually a very good law school. I attended doctoral school with Cooley's Asso. Dean. The standards for completing at Cooley are excellent. Anyone graduating there should be rightfully proud.

Doc2005
 
Bridgewalker:

Not to brag of course, but I just lost a jury trial to a fellow alum from your fine school.
 
Education and motivation, while not mutually exclusive, are not synonyms. Those with the thirst can self-educate in many subjects, including (perhaps especially) business.

Conversely, there are many with degrees who have no clue "what they want to be when they grow up", who then simply follow the path of least resistance in choosing and "furthering" a career.

That said...I vastly prefer that any medical doctors, attorneys, accountants etc. from which I buy services, actually have specialized formal education in their field. I might like Jethro Bodine's enthusiasm, but he wouldn't be my first choice were I to need brain surgery. ;-)
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Well said, Mtnvalley!

The most successful people I've ever encountered were among the most uneducated, while every day I meet college graduates who have settled into the most menial of office positions. It no longer suprises me to see a company that is owned by high school dropouts, and staffed by college graduates.

I've come to see college for what it truly is for most graduates: trading tens of thousands of dollars, and four years of their life, for a special slip of paper that qualifies the bearer to work for the gain of those who have no need for special pieces of paper of their own.
 
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I have a Ph.D. from University of Kansas Med School.

Having said that, I would warn everyone that college degrees do not necessarily indicate intelligence. Some of the dumbest people I have met in my life have had Ph.D.s.

The smartest person I have ever known was my grandfather who went through the 8th grade back in the mountains of West Virginia long ago. I wish I was as smart as he was.
 
I graduated from high school. Graduated from the university of USMC. Exchange student with South East Asia. Currently I am running my own business. Third business I have started. I have never stopped learning but I don"t get a degree from it. A paper does not prove how intelligent you are.

Semper Fi
 
I could not agree with you more phonesysphonesys. That piece of paper is way over-rated. I've seen plenty of, lets say......mentally challenged........with that piece of paper, doesn't make them un-stupid.
 
BTW, My Granfather had no education to speak of, came here on a boat when he was 8yrs. old, worked on the train docks in chicago, joined the Army, fought in Korea, got out of the Army, worked as a hydrolics engineer(he learned those skills in the Army) and retired outside of Branson Missouri without a want in the world up until the day he died. Hard work and big stones mean more than any degree ever can. All Lawers should DIE! (except mine) LOL!
 
I wish I was back in college---no bills, short hours, all the girls! no responsibilities, liberal thinking had no real consequences.

earned an AAS in Forestry in 1964
A BS in Sicence Education in 1966
A Sgt E5 in S.E Asia (political science and survival) in 1967
A Bsin Botany/Biology in 1969
And a PhD in reality in 1971
 
Does Burger King University Count?

Just wundering about the homies in the hood......:neener:
 
A.A.S. - Electronic Engineering Technology
B.A. - Computer Information Systems

They helped get the job, but common sense is the reason I've had success in my field for the last 25 years. They don't teach that in a book. You either have it, or you don't. I'm constantly amazed at the amount of people in the latter category.

The strangest thing is that I use less than 5% of what I was "taught" during college in my work. Books don't fix stuff. Common sense and logical thinking does.
 
BA- Brandeis University. Psychology.
JD- Quinnipiac Univ. Still in progress. In my 2nd year now.
 
Graduate of Missouri State University with a BS in Business.

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