One of my sisters-in-law
Spent a long time crowing over people when she found out about the tuition fee rising, as she was just about to graduate. "It's brilliant!" She said, "It means I'll be more employable, because less people will want to get my degree! The people I'd have been competing with will all have to work in McDonalds instead!"

For some reason I can't muster up any sympathy for her now, when she whines incessantly about not being able to get a job because of all the people who worked their way up rather than getting a degree.*


*Not that I have anything against the degree route. I just think some jobs require experience, while others might require more field knowledge.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 23:09, 12 replies)

A degree gets you a better job.
Especially when it's a proper one from a proper university.
Nobody ever does better by working their way up or taking up professions not requiring a degree.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 0:16, closed)

Depends what you're after as a job.
Sister has a Management degree- along with tens of thousands of other people each year. I don't think it guarantees her a job any more than someone who's worked through a company and knows how it operates that way, especially since so many people have pretty much exactly the same qualification.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 0:24, closed)

In my experience,
and I've been part of the workforce for close on 30 years now, a degree for managing shit, while favoured by some employers is fucking useless for getting quality managers. The best managers have experience at what they manage. Those who got a management degree without prior experience have been pretty much worthless if not dangerous.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 1:13, closed)

See also: fast-tracking.
Great at getting good looking, well spoken, politically sound candidates into the right social bracket, but whether or not you get anyone who's any good at the job is another matter.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 1:25, closed)

See also MBA's
An MBA is a set of tools if you already have some nouse and understand how a business works.
Unfortunately most people with a MBA, are just tools
(Sir Tainley Barking Ezekiel 23:20, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 12:14, closed)

Try telling that to our engineering department.
Middle class southern kids with an artificially inflated skill set are ten a penny; apprentice-trained electrical or mechanical engineers are becoming rarer by the year.

And in these straitened times, when everything bar insurance and usury is dying on its arse, a degree is nothing more than a gap on your CV where other folk have work experience.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 1:19, closed)

I think that Otto guy would disagree with you there...
They said he'd never amount to anything; now he drives the school bus!
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 16:16, closed)

That's the opposite problem over here in the States
Working up to train the new hires with Masters and still do their jobs after they're hired and train more new hires after the first ones were fired.
(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 4:22, closed)

I had a friend many moons ago who having got her Masters in Ancient History
and looking down the barrel of a PhD worked out the hourly rate if she got a research position with her uni and some tutoring. Then she worked out her hourly rate if she got an "entry-level" job @ MickeyD's.
Suffice to say - free Filet-o-Fishes for me for quite a while.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 2 Mar 2012, 7:18, closed)

My stepfather
before he retired was a dentist.

His nurse had a degree in physics.
(username failed moderation, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 8:37, closed)

I has a friend who went to Uni
and studied 'Design Studies'. When I queried what that entailed, she answered with a grin, 'I dunno, but I get to write my Thesis on clubbing!'

Yup, this girl spent three years studying the impact of nightclubbing on (I assume) her liver. She got a Desmond (2:2) and now works (and has done since leaving Uni) as an assistant manager at Fat Face, and will more than likely never pay off her student loan.

Pointless.
(Mr Fudge It shouldn't be illegal to have sex with an eagle, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 10:05, closed)

When my mum got her PhD
There was a young lady receiving her doctorate in "The Impact of the Klingon Language in modern communication" or some such.
I. Shit. You. Not.

What really chapped my chuddies was that here in Oz once you get to PhD stage you no longer have to pay uni fees.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 2 Mar 2012, 23:12, closed)