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Based on the poll in this forum, it looks like the more education someone has the more likely they are to seek out a place to discuss their work (be it venting, bragging, or a simple discussion). Personally, I think it's because the average 'educated' thinks more highly of themselves than the average 'uneducated', which we can see reflected time and time again from media, parents, and politics. On the flip-side, those 'less educated' can more easily come to terms with whatever they've accomplished in their career. I.e. Someone who ent to trade school is doing their trade and okay, whereas someone who went to school for a degree is doing their field and discontent they aren't manager. This isn't to say a 'less educated' would be happy with less, but that they'd be less likely to balk, moan, and cry compared to a more 'educated' who experience the same amount of relative career success. Here, I would venture the 'less educated' has to scrape and rustle a great deal more than the more 'educated', on average, for whatever career success they achieved. Or at least that's the way it use to be for the old foggies who'd brag about working at some job since high-school for 40 years...
i have a bachelors of science in environmental science
Since we seem to be in the minority here, add me to the list of non-degree holders. My education "trajectory" is as follows:
HS
Trade school cert (the school that I attended was a bank the last time I drove past it lol).
Some college
Ironically, I work at a university. Despite my limited education, I can hold my own in a room full of PhDs both in the workplace as well as in social settings. I could probably earn a significant amount more in the private sector, but at this point I'd rather spend my life with my beautiful wife and kids rather than working 70 hrs/wk and being on-call all the time.
Having said that, looking back now it would have been to my advantage if I finished my BA but I'm happy where I'm at, and that's all that matters to me.
wow... never imagined there are SO MANY college grads on here. Seems like some people go because of peer pressure with no real career goals in mind. These days degrees don't pay the way they used too... pay is decreasing everywhere... in any case... . No college here at all, high school grad pulling 20 bucks an hour grinding away at a blue collar job in a state with nearly the lowest tax burden in the country (though it's a boring state to live in)
It just means that I can carry on an intelligent conversation with anyone without them knowing that I didn't finish my degree, that's all.
Don't worry, I don't think I'm as smart as you are.
Please don't read something into my question that wasn't there. I wasn't taking a dig at you. I was simply curious what you meant by the statement.
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