Your Education.

[Justtristo]

Victorian Certificate of Education (High School Diploma), Certificate IV in Accounting and a Bachelor of Commerce.

[Autumnlicious]

Stick with it Miles

Are you kidding me? Basic memorization is not really complaisant with being intelligent in cognitive faculties. If anything I am not seeing a broad future ahead of me even with the grades I have. Looking at the situation my parent is in with job applications it begs the question "Does a formal education even count?" She has a masters degree in teaching and spent 10 years looking for a teaching job and nothing has came of it, so now she gave that up and is currently looking for a medical job. I guess I'm not very sagacious when it comes to "life".

Getting any job in any industry that is established at the moment for the most part requires a college degree. Sure, you can scrape on the edges or get lucky, but try getting a job when you've a shit load of experience but lack the magic PhD to be considered by entities like Google.

You put a cap on your education, you build a wall further down the road.

Now, staying in academia too long? That's a whole 'nother story of what not to do. Unless, of course, academia likes you and supports you.

In a choice between you and someone else, an employer will opt for better experience and degree. If both are close enough in experience, the one wielding the magic paper of 4+ years lost will win.

I know -- I'm on my own one year break to work (before I graduate) and have found ridiculous blocks in the software development industry despite my 4+ years experience working in it. That piece of paper is a definitely a metaphorical key sometimes.

[5thHorseman]

B.A. 1971 from the State University of New York.

B.A in....?

[Kayenneh]

I did pre-IB and the first year, when I decided that it was too much work for nothing and went to a regular high school and graduated from there. In Finland we have the grades I (failed), A, B, C, M, E and L (the best grade possible). (Google them if you want to know more ). I wrote L in English, E in Swedish (as my mother tongue), M in Finnish, C in Biology and B in Mathematics. All this without any cramming at all, so I'm quite content. After that I studied to become a general nurse and worked as a practical nurse for two years and now I'm studying to become a pharmacist and I work at a drug store as a technician.

[thesummerqueen]

Hee! I did IB classes up till senior year when my brain shit itself over the math. I sat for Art and English IB exams though - did quite well!

Good program, just too much work.

[Kayenneh]

If we only had had an art program.. But no, we had all the obligatory ones like math, chemistry and history and of course the usual TOK, CAS, EEs, IAs etc, but no art. All work and no play..

[KillYourself]

community college