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Title: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: The Lost One on May 17, 2006, 11:45:28 AM

I wonder what all my college degrees will get me? Maybe I'll be a used car salesman.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12776623/site/newsweek/?GT1=8199

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: Firemeboy on May 17, 2006, 12:10:57 PM

You should be so lucky...

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: Spriggan on May 17, 2006, 01:15:18 PM

Well used car salesmen are higher on the social totem-pole then lawyers.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: FirstMateJack on May 17, 2006, 01:32:15 PM

Certain things are worth giving up when you have the monies.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on May 17, 2006, 03:45:31 PM

On that note, I have officially jumped on the bandwagon and am going back to school. I meet with an admissions councellor next monday at North Central State College.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: Spriggan on May 17, 2006, 03:46:06 PM

ONE OF USSS.  ONE OF USSSSSSS.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: The Lost One on May 17, 2006, 07:55:38 PM

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Posted by: The Lost One Posted on: Today at 8:45am
I wonder what all my college degrees will get me? Maybe I'll be a used car salesman.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12776623/site/newsweek/?GT1=8199  
Posted by: Firemeboy Posted on: Today at 9:10am
You should be so lucky...  
Posted by: Spriggan Posted on: Today at 10:15am
Well used car salesmen are higher on the social totem-pole then lawyers.  

Ya, but I have more education then the average lawyer. I could sell used cars, I really can.

"So, what will it take to get you into this liability on wheels today."

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: Tekiel on May 18, 2006, 01:07:45 AM

Ya, I'm not alone!  Nice to know others are going back to school too.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: Harbinger on May 18, 2006, 01:19:30 AM

I was going back to school before it got popular.

Freakin' bandwagon jumpers-on. Next thing you know, Hot Topic's going to start carrying a line of "Goin' Back to School" crap.

;)

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: drum2dadrum on May 18, 2006, 01:30:46 AM

School is not cool. I've been a used car salesman since '92... hells yea. (insert other sarcastic quote here)  ;D

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: Oldie Black Witch on May 18, 2006, 02:45:16 AM

The whole going back to school thing must be contagious.

Hmm. We should take a poll. There are at least three regulars on the board who are starting school in the fall after at least one year since graduation. Any more? C'mon. 'Fess up. You know you wanna.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: Faster Master St. Pastor on May 18, 2006, 03:03:18 AM

Okay, fine! I admit it! I'm going back to school!

Now are you happy that you've crushed my feelings beneath your scornful superiority?! Just because I work for you doesn't give you the right to treat me like a serf! You big meanie!

*FMP runs to the corner and begins sobbing uncontrolably about the clowns  

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: 42 on May 18, 2006, 04:08:55 AM

I went back to school 5 months ago. Working on my 4th college degree. Having multiple college degrees is all the rage.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: Entsuropi on May 18, 2006, 09:39:34 AM

I never went to uni. That must count for some sort of forum ballast?

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: The Lost One on May 18, 2006, 10:22:22 AM

It's not just about going back to school and earning multiple degrees. It seems like everyone is going back to school and so the value of higher education is deflating. The question is, what are people doing with all this education? As mentioned in the article, it takes an MS to be a pizza delivery person now a days.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on May 18, 2006, 10:35:36 AM

uh... no. the article doesn't say that it requires an MS to deliver pizza. It says that woman is psychotic and would *rather* deliver pizza than do the jobs she's seen available.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: The Lost One on May 18, 2006, 12:47:32 PM

I don't know if she is psychotic. With all the hype over higher education, how many born pizza delivery persons are getting masters and Ph.D.? Besides, when I lived in Madison, WI, anything less than a Ph.D. was considered a dropout. Thus, many people with masters were working at McDonalds. Pizza Hut and other such places.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: Shrain on May 18, 2006, 04:19:21 PM

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There are at least three regulars on the board who are starting school in the fall after at least one year since graduation. Any more? C'mon. 'Fess up. You know you wanna.

Does it count if I just got one MA and I'm going on for another? I think that points to educational insanity, personally. That or financial insanity. Take your pick. *sigh* Maybe I'll go for two more and then rival 42 for total number of college degrees. ;)

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: Firemeboy on May 18, 2006, 05:08:56 PM

With apologies to Better Off Dead.  

I've been going to school for 28 years.  And I'm no dummy...

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: The Lost One on May 18, 2006, 08:19:50 PM

With 28 years of school, I'd imagen that you are brilliant and highly educated in at least one subject. The problem is that in some areas, there are too many brilliant, highly educated people and not enough pizza deliverers. Sadly, not all education has the same economic value.

I now must sadly admit that after I finish my 4th college degree in August, my wife has firmly stated that I cannot go back to school for another degree. So it appears that my going back to school days may be numbered. I don't know how I will make it without going to classes all the time but I'm sure I can work something out. Thank goodness for manditory professional education courses.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: Firemeboy on May 19, 2006, 12:46:41 PM

Well, that 28 years has been riddled with 'time off'.  Two year stint in Florida, a semester here to work, and semester there to play.  A semester in Russia to do service, and then a three year flit into corporate America before coming back...  

But yeah, I'm now narrowing my focus in one area and hoping that somebody somewhere finds value in the fact that by the time I'm done with school, I'll know a whole lot about wikis, collaborative composition, and social software.

If not, hey, I love pizza, and I hear the delivery guys get to eat the pizzas that don't get paid for.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: stacer on May 19, 2006, 02:11:44 PM

I'd say you also had a stint in baby- and toddler-hood in those 28 years.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: Firemeboy on May 19, 2006, 02:22:26 PM

Well, I started counting from kindergarten.  I'm 33.  

If I had know then that I only had another 30 years of school to go, with just a few breaks here and there, I would have given up and dropper out in first grade.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: stacer on May 19, 2006, 07:02:02 PM

For some reason I thought you were younger than me.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: Harbinger on May 22, 2006, 02:35:04 AM

It's his boyish charm and good looks. I get the same thing all the time.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: The Jade Knight on May 22, 2006, 10:11:38 PM

I just came back to school in Winter.  However, for me it's more of a necessity; I don't have a degree.

In a year, I hope to have two.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on June 16, 2006, 12:41:59 AM

It has been two years and the thought of taking another humanities class is making me physically ill.

I think there's something wrong with me.  I should really really, REALLY, as long as I'm going back to school go for my RN instead of my LPN, but if I can't test out of some of those humanities classes I think I'm going to back out because I literally can't stomach the thought of another two years of that crap.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: 42 on June 21, 2006, 06:32:47 AM

I can sympathize Fuzzy. The thought of taking another art class makes me cringe. Just thinking of having to stay up all night working on projects only to have my work verbally torn to shreads the next day, just doesn't have the appeal it once did.

So I'm looking at graduate schools for a PhD in psychology (well counseling psychology or clinical psychology). Graduate schools are so picky, it's very annoying.

Anyways the Schools I'm considering applying to so far are: Brigham Young University, Utah State, the Catholic Univestiy of America, Regent University, Norte Dame, University of Colorado, University at Buffalo, University of North Texas.

Preference anyone? Are there any I should avoid?

Any others I should consider?

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on June 21, 2006, 08:59:05 AM

Buff State is a good one too. Either way you should go to a school in Buffalo so I have someone else to endure this tumultuous city with.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on June 21, 2006, 09:28:38 AM

I saw They Might Be Giants play for the first time at CUA. It was pretty cool.

Title: Re: The Rewards of Higher Education
Post by: 42 on June 21, 2006, 09:45:19 AM

Some of my choices are long shots for me getting into their programs. Suprisingly there are not that many clinical and/or counseling psychology programs out there. They all tend to accept around 6 people a year and look for more unusual characteristics in their applicants. Experimental and research psychology programs are a lot more common.

Anyways, I figure I need to apply to several schools if I have any hope of getting into a program. Course I would like a school near family (thus Utah, Colorado, or the DC area). Also a more conservative and/or religious school would be nice, since psychology is liberal enough as is.