I hope I’m not the only one who doesn’t know what a “phat lewt” is.
phat lewt = fat loot = lots of money
Also, congrats Alex. I have a degree in psycholinguistings and have ended up as a resourcer in recruitment - not where I thought I’d be at all. Good on you!
Haulin’ Ass, Gettin’ Paid!!!
Congratulations on grabbing life by the cojones.
It must have took a lot of restraint not to say “yes, you’re the only one who doesn’t know, dumbass”. Thanks.
No, you were not the only one.
I gave you the chance to ask before me.
I also read the OP and deducted… :5sonar:
Have you guys forgot how to use your context clues?
Limey is a slang word for the english, you ignorant yankee fucktard.:eusa_doh:
Eat a dick tea sucker. Choke on a scone while you boil in coffee.
Alex, what a cunt…
Add me to the list of successful folks sans-degree. That being said, I’m now going back to school to work towards a degree and MBA in order to move into the next phase of my career.
Congratulations Alex, but don’t stop there. Always have a plan for where to go next to keep yourself improving.
Just to be the only person on here who got anything out of college.
I graduated Something Cum Laude (not the best one, the second best one) with an engineering degree and now make good money doing an engineering services job. I own my own house and kick ass and chew bubblegum in my spare time.
Wow…nice story.
I love how life is not how it’s sold to you: Sportfucking > Eternal love from someone you met early on. Teaching n00bs how to lift > Degree.
You do learn a lot of useless shit in college, but I guess it’s the only place I can find young people- that’s what makes it a themepark to spend your jewgolds in.
For law, medicine, engineering and most mathematically literate fields, university is not an option. You get your degree, or you have a hell of job getting into them. This even goes for computing these days, though it was less the case in years gone by.
The majority of jobs do not require this level of education. Moreover, there are many subjects which provide only a handful of jobs in the field compared to the number of students who study them (e.g. archaeology). There’s no good reason for many office jobs to require degrees; however, in the UK, not having a degree is frequently considered a black mark by employers because such a high percentage of the population goes to university.
It’s interesting to note though that it was still higher education in another form that helped you in the end, though, Alex: university let you down, but the college of fitness came through for you.
Anyone have a career or know anybody in physical therapy? How heavy is the schooling?
I’m in econ class now… I hate school.
Nah, I’m nice like that
Out of interest, do the people who didn’t go to uni credit their success to an early start and greater practical experience or awesome entrepreneurial skills?
Uni years were the best of my life so far, even though I’m not earning much I wouldn’t trade them for anything.
Squerlli, old bean… What I believe Hadoken means, is ‘Kiwi’ would have been the more appropriate epithet to use.
However, under the circumstances, your response was also appropriate.
The squirrel’s responses are harsh and exaggerated beyond reality, but never uncalled for.
i think the general idea is that someone who has a degree can, at the very least, be trained. someone who doesnt is pretty much a wildcard entry.
i actually do plan on going back and finishing my degree, once i get to a position where thats viable (i.e. can fit in clients around a class schedule instead of taking whatever i can get) just because i know its something that will grind my gears later on if i dont.
my gripe with uni is that it fits a single learning style. i have a hell of a time learning in a classroom environment and im not the only one- there are alternative ways to teach. for the shit on my course that involved just basic rote learning like anatomy. yeah there was a lot of bookwork, but it was broken up with going for short runs, we had fruit at the tables that we were allowed to munch whenever we liked, and could discuss freely. we also did things like short skits (I was the left ventricle when we recreated the heart)
what i find interesting is that the closest i would put that kind of learning environment to would be something like preschool. i.e. you learn by having fun. but that seems to be immoral or something when you are at uni.
University relies on, or is supposed to rely on, self-motivation. (And yes, to an extent this is an excuse to cover the lack of teaching skills among lecturers.) Good courses make learning material freely available to you and leave it up to you what to do with it. Bad courses have lecturers who don’t hand out notes and tell you things in lectures that you have to make your own permanent record of. This is an attempt to boost lecture attendance and massage their ego.
If you’re lucky enough to have a decent lecturer who gives you out comprehensive course notes though, it’s up to you to sort out how you’re learning. Get together with some friends and find ways of turning anatomical notes into stage directions? Group learning sounds as though it will work a lot better for you. The disadvantage is that if you’ve got lecturers who’re not happy with their lectures being optional and don’t provide easy access to the notes, you have to spend twice as much time on it - you do need to attend the lecture, and then you also must set aside time to go over the material later. That said, if you’ve got a group to learn with, you can rotate lecture-attendance between you and divide up the note-taking process.