Since I discovered that there are a few on this forum who have advanced degrees, I thought it would be interesting to start a poll to determine the educational make-up of the Vintage crowd.

Please be honest, and if you are not a member of Vintage, for this poll at least, please refrain from voting.

BTW, I will start with a BS in Industrial Engineering, with a 2.000000 average.

 

Voted...I'm sure I'll be in the minority. I know we have some very well educated folks here.....

 

I punched a hanging chad. I don't think it is necessary to say this, but my own feeling is that the nicest thing about a community like Vintage is that people of different educational levels, ages, backgrounds, interests, occupations, gender, physical stature, dancing abilities , muscle strengths, and even political leanings can enjoy interacting and sharing with each other on the board and in person. And we often become very special lifelong friends. It's a very strange and remarkable phenomenon.

 

From someone without a lot of initials after her name.

 

100%

 

I never went to college...
Between the lack of futher education and being of vintage age,
I had a very difficult time finding a decent paying job recently.

If I had to do it over again, I would go to college right out of High School.

 

well I did both, went to college right out of high school and then again later in life.

when I first went I had no idea why I was there and what I needed to accomplish. screwed off and flunked out....twice.

went out in the working world, discovered working 80 hours a week sucked, found direction and went back.


funny thing was having 'failed' previously, I had no fear of failure which freed me to concentrate on success.

 

I think Jim said it perfectly. It works and that makes it great for all of us. I remember most interactions with only persons of my own ilk to have been quite boring. I worked for, worked with, and had working for me several thousand individuals in well over a dozen locations, during my career; that very experience with people of diverse backgrounds and interests is by far my fondest memory of my working days.

 

Double major in Communication and Psychology, then started directly into a Masters in Communication. I found out quickly that they were training teachers--I wanted to go into the "real world", and left school to get there quickly.

The world is spinning faster than ever before. Where once apprentices gave way to artisans who improved their craft over a lifetime, people switch to new jobs that weren't invented 10 years prior. The important point is to love and foster learning, whether it is degreed or informal.

And of course, if you don't love what you're doing, it really doesn't matter whether you're degreed or not, because what you're doing will suck.

 

Nice poll!