Yeah, and blah, blah, blah is pretty much how useful it is in my current, day-to-day life!

After dropping the PhD I went into IT and haven't done Chemistry in a professional capacity since.

I'd still do it again though, given all the other things I learned at College and the additional benefits. I might chose a different subject, with hindsight though.

Intellectual is good for helping with the crossword though, I suppose.

 

So thats why my jeb ends gone blue.

 

 

I'm currently doing my foundation in mechanical engineering, after that I'm going to move on to a degree in automotive, motor sport, or just plain mechanical engineering

Don't know where yet though. Any advice?

 

Yep.......no big deal though.....just a bit of paper to wave that means jack **** in the real world.......

 

So whats the difference between say a Mechanical Engineering apprenticeship, and a Mech. Eng. at Uni? Practical stuff, or just the fact my employers have the facilities to train on site and not through a Univercity?

 

Do you have a diploma in media studies from Walsall Polytechnic or something?

 

Bsc Information Systems Engineering 2:1 University of Westminster, London. - 1993

The day I left, I forgot everything I'd learnt. Degrees are just proof you can read hand outs and can plagiarise without getting caught ! :-)

SBK

 

MEng (Hons) Automotive Engineering. Sadly never used it professionally, but helps make the Scoob faster.

In reply to COBs post - lots of very horrible maths and there were people on my course who never went near a car or workshop.

 

BSc Acoustics & Audio Tech.
Wanted to work in a recording studio or sound mixing live gigs at the time as it seemed an impossibly cool thing to do!
Now work in TV but don't use much if anything of what I studied at Uni.
I've always looked at someone with a degree as having a. the opportunity to go to Uni and b. the propensity to learn - nothing more.

Jon (would rather have an awesomeness cert!)

 

I agree Jon, I 've interviewed many different candidates for jobs etc, and I see a degree as a sign that the person can read, write and learn. Degree subjects are now becoming quite abstract, and it wont be too long before there's a BSc in Scoobynet ! :-)

SBK

 

I have a degree in weapons training

It pays off!

 

I could have gone to university but decided against it when I had joined the RAF and was selected to be trained for the job I did at the time. I never regretted it, I learned a great deal more about life etc. during that time, and those who did get a degree under the auspices of the RAF got accelerated promotion when they eventually left university, but were totally useless when it came to actually doing the job. Their lack of practical experience let them down seriously. They were unable to use what intelligence that they might have had!

Les

 

In our office, everyone has a degree and the manager in our firm sees it as a sign of application.
The subject isn't necessarily important, more the ability to stick at something for a number of years and see it through to completion.
Up until recently I was convinced that my degree had given me nothing but three years of sleepless nights however I was at a meeting recently and my Project Manager informed me that I only got the interview because of my letters, I got the job because of my interview

Peanuts
BEng (Hons.)

 

BSc (hons) Housing Management & Development Anglia Poly 1995...wanted to be a land buyer but ended up in IT

 

That last sentence doesn't make sense, Peanuts


Actually yes it does

 

BSc (Hons) Geological Sciences. There's not a lot about dinosaurs and stuff that I don't know about. I saw wood for a living, now.

 

Funny how things work out; There's not much I don't know about automated manufacturing lines and the associated industrial controls, electronics and programming etc (probably obselete now anyway);

I click a mouse for a living , nowadays.

In fact my friend who did metallurgy does what I should have been doing - comissioning and programming for industrial turbines, he actually runs past some control logic issues for me to give a second opinion, just to rub it in...... git

 

I have BSc General - too lazy to get the Honours bit.

I think you get the basic BSc for turning up at your halls of residence and paying your rent on time. It must have been that or the repeated drug fueled all night parties that got me through.