What's your degree and what is your job?

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by Tomous » Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:28 pm

Moggy wrote:
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Tomous wrote:Degree is in Accounting and Finance.

My job title is Finance Business Partner.

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by Bunni » Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:32 pm

still wrote:Is Bunni ever going got tell us what the point of all this is?!


To prove that while useful to have, not having a degree doesn't make you destined for a life on the dole.

Though I've also learned that if your job can't be made into a uniform wearing animal in a children's book, I have no strawberry floating clue what you actually do.

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by still » Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:39 pm

Bunni wrote:
still wrote:Is Bunni ever going got tell us what the point of all this is?!


To prove that while useful to have, not having a degree doesn't make you destined for a life on the dole.

Though inhale also learned that if your job can't be made into a uniform wearing animal in a children's book, I have no strawberry floating clue what you actually do.


'inhale'?

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by Red » Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:43 pm

I've got a degree in Ancient History (which I took after dropping out of Medicine), and now I work in editorial in academic law books at a university publisher, specialising in police law. Is good fun.

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by Bunni » Tue Jan 30, 2018 3:59 pm

still wrote:
Bunni wrote:
still wrote:Is Bunni ever going got tell us what the point of all this is?!


To prove that while useful to have, not having a degree doesn't make you destined for a life on the dole.

Though inhale also learned that if your job can't be made into a uniform wearing animal in a children's book, I have no strawberry floating clue what you actually do.


'inhale'?


*I've. Can't believe autocorrect is still a thing we have to strawberry floating deal with.

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by Lex-Man » Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:04 pm

It's one of those weird things, you go to school get told you need qualifications to succeed in life and then find out later that all the kids who dropped out at 16 are now plumbers and earning 40k a year. When you have three degrees and are struggling to get past 30K.

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by still » Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:05 pm

Bunni wrote:
still wrote:
Bunni wrote:
still wrote:Is Bunni ever going got tell us what the point of all this is?!


To prove that while useful to have, not having a degree doesn't make you destined for a life on the dole.

Though inhale also learned that if your job can't be made into a uniform wearing animal in a children's book, I have no strawberry floating clue what you actually do.


'inhale'?


*I've. Can't believe autocorrect is still a thing we have to strawberry floating deal with.


Just checking! I should fit right into your children's story book. I even wear a 'uniform', (all black).

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by still » Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:06 pm

lex-man wrote:It's one of those weird things, you go to school get told you need qualifications to succeed in life and then find out later that all the kids who dropped out at 16 are now plumbers and earning 40k a year. When you have three degrees and are struggling to get past 30K.


Two degrees. 17k. (But to be fair, it wasn't always thus. Redundancy and life style choices and all that.....) But yeah most self-employed builders, plumbers etc, if they are any good, earn shedloads.

Edit: I feel I ought to clarify that a bit. In winter I typically work between 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 hrs a day. In summer four to five. I.e if I put more hours in I could be earning considerably more. (By and large the same overheads too so it would be proportionately more too.) But it fit's in with our lifestyles - I act as taxi for my wife as she won't drive... and do things like a lot of the food shopping etc. The mortgage is long paid. Diane's daughter has flown the nest so you could say we are semi-retired... And anyone self-employed knows only too well that the hours you 'work' and are paid for are not the only hours you have to do. You can stick at least another 50% of hours on as unpaid work on top of that. The job doesn't stop just because it's Sunday or gone 6:00pm.....

(So, I used to earn a fair whack but was bored to tears and hated my job and now I earn peanuts but I'm my own boss, don't have to manage anyone, don't have to go to tedious management meetings.... My advise to you young-uns, (as far as is financially possible, yes I know it's no that easy), is to follow your heart. Life is too short and too precious to spend half of it doing something that gives you no satisfaction.)

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by Hypes » Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:13 pm

still wrote:
Bunni wrote:
still wrote:
Bunni wrote:
still wrote:Is Bunni ever going got tell us what the point of all this is?!


To prove that while useful to have, not having a degree doesn't make you destined for a life on the dole.

Though inhale also learned that if your job can't be made into a uniform wearing animal in a children's book, I have no strawberry floating clue what you actually do.


'inhale'?


*I've. Can't believe autocorrect is still a thing we have to strawberry floating deal with.


Just checking! I should fit right into your children's story book. I even wear a 'uniform', (all black).


Gestapo?

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by still » Tue Jan 30, 2018 4:17 pm

Hyperion wrote:
still wrote:
Bunni wrote:
still wrote:
Bunni wrote:
still wrote:Is Bunni ever going got tell us what the point of all this is?!


To prove that while useful to have, not having a degree doesn't make you destined for a life on the dole.

Though inhale also learned that if your job can't be made into a uniform wearing animal in a children's book, I have no strawberry floating clue what you actually do.


'inhale'?


*I've. Can't believe autocorrect is still a thing we have to strawberry floating deal with.


Just checking! I should fit right into your children's story book. I even wear a 'uniform', (all black).


Gestapo?


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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by Tomous » Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:39 pm

The best part of my degree was 4 years dossing at Uni really.

The actual degree probably wasn’t that vital to my career really. I could have got to the same point by joining an accountancy firm at 18 in an apprentice position. I wouldn’t have spent my Wednesday evenings in ridiculous fancy dress then though in all likelihood.

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by Wrathy » Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:48 pm

Degree in Politics and Philosophy, joint honours. So kind of two degrees, though it definitely feels like half of each really. Originally did Law, hated it, and failed (and got kicked off the course) so very happy with how life turned out.

I just started a new job as a Business Analyst which involves a lot of data work, forecasting, and things to do with Excel. It's a lot of fun. Previously I was on the graduate scheme at Vodafone UK which was a lot more varied and taught me quite a lot of professional skills without necessarily specialising in anything, because I'm a lucky piece of gooseberry fool.

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by Corazon de Leon » Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:54 pm

lex-man wrote:It's one of those weird things, you go to school get told you need qualifications to succeed in life and then find out later that all the kids who dropped out at 16 are now plumbers and earning 40k a year. When you have three degrees and are struggling to get past 30K.


Not really the case though - the kids in school who dropped out and worked hard at their trade are certainly gonna be earning good money, but the folks who went to uni and did stupid strawberry floating degrees or spent their three or four years at uni out on the piss will then have trouble finding jobs at the end of it.

On the flip side, the kids who dropped out at sixteen and sat scratching their arse will be earning strawberry float all money, while the people who actually worked for their degree or studied a relevant subject will also probably be earning a good wage.

Not me though - I just kept going back and doing further degrees. Now I can’t get any more qualifications I don’t know what the strawberry float to do. :slol:

Edit: Also, to contextualise my original post in the thread, I work in a call centre but only to fund educational stuff; the cost of obtaining the PhD I just got awarded was about £15,000. I also teach uni students across two institutions and am currently applying for research and teaching roles around the country. :D

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by smurphy » Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:57 pm

We had some retail graduates at Vodafone come and spend some time in the shop I worked in once. They were the most vapid useless banana splits I've ever encountered. :dread: One of them was supposed to be a customer interaction specialist or something, and she was too scared to talk to a single customer. You couldn't have made up a better bunch of caricature, hippy, freethinking, good-at-nothing, blu-sky-thinking tossers if you tried.

(Not to suggest you were gooseberry fool or anything, Wrathy)

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by Corazon de Leon » Tue Jan 30, 2018 6:00 pm

To be fair, humanities courses are the worst for teaching kids how to deal with real life and the working world. All of my classes at undergraduate and masters level could’ve been done in a single day, rather than be spread across the week. I’ve gained more discipline from working in insurance than I ever did during uni.

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by Pedz » Tue Jan 30, 2018 6:07 pm

No degree, bum.

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by smurphy » Tue Jan 30, 2018 6:08 pm

Corazon de Leon wrote:To be fair, humanities courses are the worst for teaching kids how to deal with real life and the working world. All of my classes at undergraduate and masters level could’ve been done in a single day, rather than be spread across the week. I’ve gained more discipline from working in insurance than I ever did during uni.


Aye. I have a friend who's in a similar position to you in that he's been in academia pretty much non-stop for his entire life. The difference with him though, is that since his parents have paid his way through everything he's never done an honest day's work in his life. He has this incredibly deep, specific knowledge of his subject (which he think everyone else is as interested in as he is, and thus won't shut up about it), but has totally uninformed, warped views about everything else in the real world.

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by Wrathy » Tue Jan 30, 2018 6:15 pm

smurphy wrote:We had some retail graduates at Vodafone come and spend some time in the shop I worked in once. They were the most vapid useless banana splits I've ever encountered. :dread: One of them was supposed to be a customer interaction specialist or something, and she was too scared to talk to a single customer. You couldn't have made up a better bunch of caricature, hippy, freethinking, good-at-nothing, blu-sky-thinking tossers if you tried.

(Not to suggest you were gooseberry fool or anything, Wrathy)


lol - I worked in retail before coming to Vodafone so I was pretty enthusiastic about the customer side of things (hated wearing the uniform though - those polo shirts are so nasty, and I despise jeans...). Honestly the teams in the shops were the most grounded and realistic out of anybody I had the pleasure of working with. I ended up in retail field management and later in retail HQ so I think I saw the good side of things, and definitely felt for the stores. Left to work things out on their own with systems that simply didn't work far too often. And the rest of my time at head office I would struggle to be as warm about...

Your impression of the typical graduate is spot on though. Usually wide eyed and clueless. They stopped sending them last year which I think was for the best!

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by Kezzer » Tue Jan 30, 2018 6:18 pm

This is where you both worked at the same store :lol:

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PostRe: What's your degree and what is your job?
by Wrathy » Tue Jan 30, 2018 6:21 pm

quite possible >_>


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