What's your highest level of education completed?

[Drako]

There's a stigma associated with taking 7 years to get a 4 year degree.

How would anyone know how long it took, unless you were dumb enough to put it on your resume? 😀

 

[Drako]

Plenty of places require a PhD for research.

That's why I said there were exceptions. 🙄

 

[Rakehellion]

How would anyone know how long it took, unless you were dumb enough to put it on your resume? 😀

You wouldn't put your GED or high school education on your résumé either.

 

[Drako]

You wouldn't put your GED or high school education on your résumé either.

You might if it was a requirement for the job.

 

[sixone]

No School of Hard Knocks? 😛

 

[vi edit]

My wife is a Doctor (PharmD), but doesn't even have an undergrad degree. She met the Pharmacy requirements 2 years into her undergrad program. If she ever left the field of pharmacy I always wondered if that would ever impact her career.

 

[OCGuy]

Something tells me this is a place where the AT demographic trounces me badly 😛

It does make me feel fortunate, though.

 

[sixone]

Who is going to admit on here they didn't finish high school?

Someone who feels comfortable in their anonymity. :shrug:

I don't think lack of a HS diploma is all that revealing about a person. It's not a difficult accomplishment, after all. At 18 years old, very few people have the best judgment, even with a diploma.

Going back and getting a GED later: that says focus, determination, and accomplishment, IMHO.

 

[smackababy]

Do you write it as "in loo" too?

Or did you take French?

I have never used 'in lieu of' in writing. But yes, I did take 3 years of French.

 

[BoberFett]

High school and about two weeks of community college.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Who is going to admit on here they didn't finish high school?

I was posting on here in college for example, so I couldn't claim to finish college. But now I can claim that and grad school knocked out. Lets not forget the kids who post on here too.

 

[OCGuy]

Who is going to admit on here they didn't finish high school?

Good Enough Degree here.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

I hated school when I was younger - it's very surprising I got a HS diploma at all. After I finally grew up (early 30s) I went back and got an AAS then BS.

 

[JM Aggie08]

BBA in Computer Information Systems, currently looking into going back to get my MBA in the very near future.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Why would you get a masters in Accounting? It doesn't seem like employers value it at all.

To be able to sit for the CPA exam, most states require 150 credit hours, equivalent of 5yrs of college, so colleges have begun to offer 1yr Masters in Accounting degrees.

 

[OCGuy]

I think student loan debt should be included next to all posts 😛

 

[Scarpozzi]

Master's but holy shit, my entire company is full of them -- not because it's necessary. A lot of them did a foreign degree and got a local master's. Everyone and their mother has them now...

It was 10 classes and free. I couldn't pass it up because I had free time when I did it.

 

[Scarpozzi]

To be able to sit for the CPA exam, most states require 150 credit hours, equivalent of 5yrs of college, so colleges have begun to offer 1yr Masters in Accounting degrees.

Not to mention not everyone has an undergraduate in Accounting. If you had a bachelor's degree in general business or business administration, you could get a master's in Accounting and build from there to be more well rounded.....but yeah, it's kind of redundant unless you're going for a Phd or the above example.

 

[Xed]

Graduated from Medium Rare Steak University

 

[poofyhairguy]

Going back and getting a GED later: that says focus, determination, and accomplishment, IMHO.

Agreed. I was assuming that people with a GED would not be voting that they have "Less than High School." To me a GED = High School.

I guess that was my real point- who will admit to strangers they don't even have the drive to get a GED?

 

[nageov3t]

Bachelor's degree.

my parents are always harping on me to go back to grad school, but I never saw a benefit. it's not like my sister, who's a teacher -- she gets an advance degree and she gets an automatic payscale bump even if the degree doesn't actually help her teach any better.

tbh, if I could do it over again I wouldn't even have gotten the bachelors. I'd have used the money instead to get a couple certs and move out to San Jose or Seattle back in the early 00's

 

[OCGuy]

tbh, if I could do it over again I wouldn't even have gotten the bachelors. I'd have used the money instead to get a couple certs and move out to San Jose or Seattle back in the early 00's

So if you had this power, you would move to Siliconlandworld and buy certs? 😛

 

[nageov3t]

So if you had this power, you would move to Siliconlandworld and buy certs? 😛

back in 1998?

some stupid cert from a basic tech school + 6-figure job at pets.com 😛

 

[DrPizza]

I am also not sure why there is even a stigma on getting a GED. I mean, it is a test on the basic knowledge you're supposed to get in high school. I would imagine a good amount of high school graduates couldn't pass it. There is no negativity connected with testing out of a college course, why high school?

Because it shows that you're too lazy or too unmotivated to complete something that was handed to you on a silver platter. Nothing could be easier than getting a regular high school diploma.

Would you want lazy/unmotivated employees working for you? Would you take a risk on them when there are plenty of potential employees who are slightly overqualified?

 

[OCGuy]

Would you want lazy/unmotivated employees working for you? Would you take a risk on them when there are plenty of potential employees who are slightly overqualified?

Depending on when this interview is taking place, I don't think teen behavior is normally judged outside of felonies, for a number of reasons. Assuming lazy/unmotivated is actually a lazy view, imo.