Bachelor's in French and Master's in Information Management. I got the Master's after I had been working for about ten years as a translator and technical writer/editor, in order to move into IT. Which is where I've been for almost 30 years now.

 

Well said Jim.

 

You are missing at least one option...I have a two year AAS in Mechanical Engineering Technology.

 

I was a little leery of this poll, and the possible direction the thread could take. Not for me personally, but for folks who may have had the wrong idea of what Gene was shooting for. I've always felt comfortable with folks here, and I was well aware of the higher education that some had. I'm sure Jim's and other posts helped to to prevent the thread from taking the wrong direction.

What folks do for a living has never been the topic at meets. I think, because it really doesn't matter (at least to me), how folks spend their day and I think that is kind of . The common interest of the car brought folks here, and then things just took off from there.

 

Exactly. At my point in retirement, the education that serves me best is the school of hard knocks, life's experiences, and common sense. I've met teenagers with more common sense than many educated adults.

 

I agree, but the learning curve on the hard knocks can be steep and slippery, but they make life interesting.

 

[QUOTE=Lainey,Aug 25 2009, 12:38 PM]I was a little leery of this poll, and the possible direction the thread could take. Not for me personally, but for folks who may have had the wrong idea of what Gene was shooting for.

 

Earlier, I was disappointed to see that you had locked the poll because I had not "voted" yet.

Now, I see that the poll is open again , so I have added my "vote" before you close the poll again.

 

I'm another of those somewhere between HS and Bachelor's degree folks. But then again there really was no program anywhere in the world to pursue a degree in what I do now at the time I was college age except perhaps computer science.

But then again the science is a lot different now than it was in the late 70s - early 80s.

 

As one of the PhD respondents and having worked in a place where more than a third of the technical staff had a PhD I can assure you that having a PhD does not tell you very much about a person except that the recipient knew a lot about a particular subject at the time they graduated.

The principal thing that having a PhD proves is having persistence: The ability to set a goal and achieve it.


Here is a true story that I heard while I was at Bell Labs. One of the most famous people that worked there at the time was S.O. Rice. His fame was due to his book "Mathematical Analysis of Random Noise" based on thesis research he did as a PhD candidate at CalTech and Columbia in 1944 and 1945. He never received a PhD. After he completed his dissertation in Electrical Engineering the department did not accept it because "it was not engineering." It was suggested that he take it to the Mathematics department. But those folks looked at it and told him that really was physics. At the Physics department they told him to take to the EE department. At that point he gave up.

Now of course it is known as one of the foundations of Communications Theory. You can get a degree in that nowadays. He did get a Honorary PhD later in his career.