How Can We More Effectively

by Little Miss Attila on December 15, 2009

. . . fetishize degrees?

Well, I know my answer.

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jc December 16, 2009 at 12:40 am

Seriously? Me: 49 YO with 20 years experience, I’ve designed abnd written the damn maint programs. No degree. I can work my way up through the infrastructure.

Hey! I am the damn infrastructure. The degreed candidates are my students. They are the one coming up with the wrong answers to the day to day equations.

The guys that I learned from are retired or dead, and now I have to justify my existence to a bunch of Human Resources drones. who know nothing about the work I do, but have the collected works of Donald Trump on their shelves.

I long ago made a pact with myself never to work for a business so large that it had to have a government bufer layer (aka Human resources department).

Now I find that the only growth sector is government employment.

Do I want to be a whore with a big bad pimp?

Do I want to find my own corner and take my chances?

Do I want to take the family and shotgun and low my head off?

Do I want to take that same shotgun and “express myself”.

Fuck it. I’m tired.

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jc December 16, 2009 at 12:43 am

Sorry Joy, I’m depressed and angry and etween labels. Feel free to delete the previous.

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Peter December 16, 2009 at 2:02 am

Hhhph. I have 98.6 degrees from the University of Fahrenheit. Then I got the AA degree that I had to have before my department would hire me, plus enough continuing education courses to bore me near to death. The biggest thing I learned from them was to be real careful choosing a holster for my off duty gun, seems about 1990 or so kids started freaking out if a gun showed. Ah, education.

I swear, we could close half the Universities and turn them into old folks homes for lefties and turn the rest of the schools into places like Hillsdale or Harding University, George Mason and places like that where kids can get educated instead of indoctrinated. And trade schools. We need more kids that know how to DO something.

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jc December 16, 2009 at 2:44 am

But, but, but, I saw on teevee that our god and savior and president said that it was a good idea for everyone to have a college degree just like he has so that we could all be famous!

I mean, if everyone has a college degree then we’re all smart, right? And we should all make more money, right? ‘Cos it’s all just the old folks hatin’ on us that keeps us oppressed, right? Like all those Harvard Law School elitist piggies who be keepin’ us all down, right?

Fight the power, you dig?

Like, if the government gives us all free college degrees, (it’s not like it costs money or anything, ‘coz it’s from the government which means it’s like, free, dude!) it means that I’m just as good as a real doctor! I mea if I’ve got like a Ph.D. I’m like a doctor, right? So I can write you a ‘scrip for legal reefer, dude! Right? And it’s just as good as that other guy, you know, the one that always brown-nosed by doing his homework and shit. Right?

(writer refuses to humiliate himself further by reciting his undergrad underthoughts and pleads guilty to previous drug abuse) (It seemed like a good idea a the time)

Caio, joy

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I R A Darth Aggie December 16, 2009 at 6:49 am

Do I want to find my own corner and take my chances?

I’d say yes. Then when the sh!t hits the fan, you can come back as a consultant. Make sure you simply tell the PhDers how to do the job correctly — let them do the actual heavy lifting.

Actually, I suspect that the heavy lifting will be done by guys like me: educated enough to be able to speak PhD, but with enough smarts to know that sometimes a hammer is just a hammer.

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I R A Darth Aggie December 16, 2009 at 6:51 am

Another advantage of being a consultant is that you get paid regardless of the outcome. If it works, you look like a genius. If it doesn’t, you blame the goobers who didn’t follow your instructions, or say they went their own way.

Did I mention you get paid regardless? and that you can charge a boatload of money for it? remember you’re paying both ends of your payroll taxes, insurance, etc.

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I R A Darth Aggie December 16, 2009 at 6:53 am

I think everyone should go to college at some point. They just need to figure out when they’ve had enough. For some, its a semester or two, for some 8-10 years worth.

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Little Miss Attila December 16, 2009 at 9:40 am

Another advantage of being a consultant is that you get paid regardless of the outcome.

Theoretically. And even if you do, there is the question of “when.”

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