How edumacated are you?

[anothersam]

Me? Not very. Was lucky to graduate from what Americans endearingly refer to as high school. Endured a semester or two of college, where I spent time writing pulp fiction and tracking down the woman I'd be spending the next 29+ years of my life with. I am the only person in my extended family, bar my father-in-law, who doesn't have at least a bachelor's degree.

I don't say this with any sense of reverse pride; in fact I've often felt the pull of academia. But as Newton (or somebody) once said, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Which I'm loosely interpreting to mean, it pulled, but I pushed just as hard.

So: How far did you get? And do you wish you'd gone further?

 

[coffeejo]

BA. Started my M.Phil (part-time) but couldn't cope with it and full-time work so kept deferring until it was too late. I've still got my books and notes for it but my enthusiasm has waned somewhat over the last decade and a half. A few of my friends are now officially doctors in the non-medical sense but having witnessed the agony they all went through, no matter what the subject, I'm glad I never pursued an academic career.

 

[numbnuts]

I got by on bullshit

 

[Levo-Lon]

I Dont understand the Question....

 

[MiK1138]

educashun is ovur ratted

 

[Jimidh]

BSc then needed to get a job!!

 

[screenman]

Left school at 15, I have employed a lot of well educated people over the last 40 years of running my own businesses does that count?

 

[Hill Wimp]

A levels but got diverted on the way to Uni by the lure of travel.

The fun only lasted a year before my mum convinced me to come home and get a proper job. That proper job ends in 2018 so its back to travel and fun after that.

I have half an OU history degree that i really should get on and finish.

 

[Drago]

Did well at O level, dive bombed at A. Joined the Army, left the Army, settled down and started with the OU. BA and MSc, plus more vocational qualifications than I can shake a Hohmann orbital transfer at,

 

[shouldbeinbed]

1st half of a BTech HND is as high as I got academically. Vocational qualifications coming out of my ears and my the time and work getting my top level professional qualification could have got me my sisters degree twice over.

 

[Dave7]

Interesting question.
I left school 1961 with absolutely NO qualifications.I remember my dear old dad (not) saying "I wouldn't pay you in washers"..........no love lost there!!!
Bummed around doing lots of different mundane (but interesting) jobs...........never out of work for more than one day till 1982.
Got a job as a rep'......did well and the 'boss' promoted me............THEN
I was the first person in the UK to manufacture rubbish chutes..........(those red thingies you see hanging from buildings).
1997......started my own company & did quite well..........not massive but OK.
Sold out in 2009 aged 63 and am now forced to play golf, cycle, walk, bird watch and if I have time-go to the pub

 

[Easytigers]

BA, MA, PGCE
BA taught me how to drink like a fish
MA taught me how to drink like a fish on a smaller budget
PGCE taught me that I didn't have time to drink but would give it a bloody good go!

 

[Colin_P]

I got my cycling proficiency back in 1979 at the age of 8.

 

[TVC]

B.Eng(Hons)
Microsoft Project
Manual Handling
First Aid
Fire Extinguisher Use

 

[HertzvanRental]

I have a certificate for "Best New Allotment Holder 2012"