What level of education did you achieve?

[Bretrick]

Tasmania in the 70's was primary school, years 1 through 6, High School was 7 through 10.
That was me.
Went into 4 years Apprenticeship in the Fitting and Machining Trade.
Lasted 20 years in the Trade. 10 years in a underground Copper Mine on the West Coast of Tasmania.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Public school diploma.
Two year certificate in accounting.
Various night courses and professional training programs.

During my working years I held many professional positions that I should not have been qualified for due to my lack of formal education.

Encourage the people you care about to get all of the education and training they can before they enter the job market. Sadly education pays bigger dividends than experience in today’s world.

 

[debodun]

Bachelor of Science in Clinical Laboratory Science

 

[Jules]

Encourage the people you care about to get all of the education and training they can before they enter the job market. Sadly education pays bigger dividends than experience in today’s world.

I’m doing this. It’s hard to make them understand it has to be useful too.

Post my Bachelors, I went back and took a one year clerical course. I read that getting your foot in the door was the first step. It worked for me.

 

[WheatenLover]

BBA in Accounting
JD in Law

 

[Warrigal]

BSc majoring in mathematics, as a mature age student. It took 8 years part time.

 

[ohioboy]

Graduated 3rd in a class of 2.

 

[Tom 86]

I graduated high school, went to 1 year of college learned welding there, then into the army. There I learned electronics back in the '50s. Came out went to work at a machine shop got my 5 years in so was a certified machinist. Then went to work for a company as a traveling maintenance person setting up plants for Essex wire.

Spent 2 years doing that then settled down in Lafayette In. working for General foods using my electronics background & they sent me to more schools so I could program the computers that ran all the machines there.

We made Stove Top dressing, Cool Whip, tang, Jell-O puddings/gelatins & a lot more. Then they shut down the plant after 18 years but I stayed on 4 years till they sold the buildings then they retired me.

 

[Mr. Ed]

life X Learner

 

[moviequeen1]

graduated from high school '72
have associate's degree from 2 yr Vermont College '74,back then was part of Norwich Univ

 

[Pepper]

ma

 

[oldpop]

Masters degree in BS and Road Scholar.....

 

[Purwell]

City & Guilds Full Tech Certificate in Product Design.
Don't think it exists any more.

Worked as a designer of special purpose machinery for over 30 years then due to the UK no longer making very much finished up as a Building Services technician.

 

[Lewkat]

Master's in Psychology. Decided not to use it. Became a clinical instructor instead.

 

[Smiley Holly]

The highest degree I achieved is a Bachelor of Science. I don't use it as I am a House Wife now.

 

[AnnieA]

M.S. x 2 - Did the second Master's and worked a few years in the field, then returned to the first career path. Also have a semester in a combo MS/PhD program in microbiology. I hated it...worked with mice and rats which was fine but I could hear dogs crying out in the distance from another lab. Down the road, I would've progressed to larger animals and could not stand the thought. I still have nightmares about that semester.

 

[palides2021]

B.A. Biology with minors in music and theater, non degree classes in psychology, MFA Creative Writing, and now working towards a PhD. Also, many certificates and a diploma in Medical Assisting.

 

[AnnieA]

B.A. Biology with minors in music and theater, non degree classes in psychology, MFA Creative Writing, and now working towards a PhD. Also, many certificates and a diploma in Medical Assisting.

Love the variety! My BS is Biology with a minor in Art!

 

[palides2021]

Love the variety! My BS is Biology with a minor in Art!

Thanks, AnnieA for letting me know! I worked in a lab for over a decade before becoming a stay-at-home mother and that's when I changed careers. I do miss it sometimes.

 

[palides2021]

M.S. x 2 - Did the second Master's and worked a few years in the field, then returned to the first career path. Also have a semester in a combo MS/PhD program in microbiology. I hated it...worked with mice and rats which was fine but I could hear dogs crying out in the distance from another lab. Down the road, I would've progressed to larger animals and could not stand the thought. I still have nightmares about that semester.

I understand your dread of working with lab animals! We had to work with mice in the lab, but no dogs or rats! One time they found a mouse in the cafeteria and came calling me in my lab to see if it was one of mine. I said, no because we worked with nude mice (immunocompromised) and these were regular field mice that they caught! I was more comfortable working with tissue culture than with the mice.

 

[Llynn]

MBA

 

[Alligatorob]

Way too much, spent too many years as a professional student... Then finally got on with life.

 

[Sliverfox]

Graduated high school class of 1960.

Still attending School of Hard Knocks,,,learn something new every day.
At my age some things have to be repeated.

Don't know when I'll gratuate from that school.

 

[Serenity4321]

The highest degree I achieved is a Bachelor of Science. I don't use it as I am a House Wife now.

I say any education you received, you use in life even if you are not aware of it. What you learned has benefited you and others in ways you possibly do not recognize? Being a housewife is tough work and I bet some of the skills you learned while receiving a college education have benefited you and others in your present work.

 

[Serenity4321]

I have a BS in microbiology..still wish I had majored in psychology..that was my first love..