How Educated Are You?
By Morgan
@OneOfMany (12150)
United States
March 31, 2018 11:01am CST
I think this will be a bit on the side of 'stirring up the pot', but I wanted to know how many people of higher education we have here at myLot. I know a degree doesn't determine intelligence, just effort, as there are plenty of geniuses and prodigies that started billion dollar companies dropping out of college and working in their parents' basement. However, since I doubt any of those billionaires hang out here, they're hardly included.
There are many discussions and topics here that can lead to quite the debate, and while everyone has an opinion on something, that doesn't mean they always can properly back up their argument. I have been blocked because of my 'know-it-all' ability to research and back up my point of view with logic and examples from sources, which I know anyone else can do with a little effort. Perhaps I'm just searching to find a rare PhD here among us who could share their vast knowledge and years of experience on an interesting topic.
I have a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering. I also have a Masters of Science in Environmental Management. The engineering degree was much harder, in my opinion. While the environmental management degree was a lot of stuff I already knew about from personal research. Because of these two degrees I get a little excited when a possible scientific debate pops up, but there are few of those. Mostly just rehashed media opinions and daily woes. And of course, my education hardly reflects in what I do in life, but the themes sure are put to use!
So then, what kind of degrees do we have here at myLot?
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25 responses
@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
31 Mar 18
This is easy hehehe. I have a Masters Degree in Entrepreneuship and hoping to get my PHD soon. 
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
31 Mar 18
Awesome! What kinds of things can you do with your degree?
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
31 Mar 18
@OneOfMany Thank you. It is more on the business side of things. The creation of businesses up to the implementation. Also, we make studies and researches that is business related. And most of all, we can teach. Teach college students who are taking business degree courses. I am just not into teaching college students, though.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
31 Mar 18
Well, if I get no responses, I will know not to take anyone seriously here. :P
If you've mastered life, I would think so! 
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
31 Mar 18
@OneOfMany Doctored rather than Mastered 
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
31 Mar 18
@pgntwo Haha, I am an internet scholar in my spare time. I have learned a lot about the world through my reading of online documents. :P
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@vandana7 (100300)
• India
31 Mar 18
In real life, not much. B.Sc (Botany, Zoology, and Chemistry), followed by company secretaries course (but did not complete the last two papers), have done some programming courses which are well forgotten...work experience in company secretarial line, accountancy, legal documentation, home loan department, public relations, and some indexing too. Right now only freelance content writer.
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@vandana7 (100300)
• India
31 Mar 18
@OneOfMany Yeah..it is a language...I only remember some of the programming techniques and practices. Rest is clean sheet. lol
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
31 Mar 18
For those of us who have moved into writing fields, there are no wasted experiences. Well, except when it comes to remembering computer programming. I had several classes on that and remember nothing! lol It is a language, after all.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
31 Mar 18
@vandana7 Whatever I took away from it and could be used, I use in Excel spreadsheets. It's much handier!
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
31 Mar 18
We need more of those in society. People can't seem to manage a business when the steps are laid out in front of them! :D
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@Courage7 (19633)
• United States
31 Mar 18
I guess I am just uneducated enough to wonder why a simple question would be stirring the pot
Anyway, I went to Oxford does that qualify?
But not university only technical college for English Lit, Art, Human Biology and skived off half the time
I had elementary school with nuns..quite disciplined and that was some right schooling.
I have a hands on trade that requires a state license that I studied for a couple years.
Anyway, I went to Oxford does that qualify?
But not university only technical college for English Lit, Art, Human Biology and skived off half the time
I had elementary school with nuns..quite disciplined and that was some right schooling.
I have a hands on trade that requires a state license that I studied for a couple years.3 people like this
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
31 Mar 18
I figure various people will take it as an attack on them, such as how religion seems to be an attack even if it is just a question. :P
Sounds like you have a fair number of things in your background. As I tend to tell people these days: "College is the new high school when looking for jobs." I tell them sometimes it's better to get into a trade and master it. By the time they get the experience and can make better money, people will be just finishing college and getting shouldered with student debt. Only to find employment at the local fast food joint.
One has to wonder why the mentality of college is the prevalent one when thinking economically. :P
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
31 Mar 18
@Courage7 Well, there is a balance to maintain in society. If you lack your builders and tradesmen, and repairers, no matter how innovative your society, it will fall apart. A healthy civilization is built and maintained, not fitted with bells and whistles.
If all my intense studying and education amounted to was helping me build and shape ideas, it was worth it. Because I can often rationalize and reason out things that other people might get hung up on. Oddly enough, it is like trying to add a giant pile of sticks to a burning bonfire. The big sticks are the fuel it needs to burn strongest and longest, but they are the hardest to pull out of the pile. Thus, the person wanting the big sticks need to remove the smaller ones first, to get to where they want to be. If other people were helping to remove the small sticks, and that was the only way they could contribute, the person wanting the big sticks could get to them easily, producing access to smaller sticks along the way.
Society needs to be balanced like that. You can't have everyone with degrees, because the trades are needed to support the rest.
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@Courage7 (19633)
• United States
31 Mar 18
@OneOfMany Yes many feel attacked on various subject matter.
Shame really.
Well with the trade I had, when I was working on people, many of them had high college degrees and were out of work, which made me very grateful to have taken out a hands on trade.
I was never out of work and earned very good money, I agree with you on that.
No one can take it away from me and it is like riding a bicycle. I will always have it to turn to.
Nothing wrong with degrees at all and yours are astounding to me.
I wouldn´t have the brain for that type of study.
More power to you.
Hope it served you well.
A man of the street said once to me, one can have all the degrees in the world, but the jewel of the mind takes the lot. I could really appreciate what he was saying..common sense also counts for a lot no matter how many degrees you have.
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@Starmaiden (9311)
• Canada
31 Mar 18
I have a Fine Arts degree but nothing close to a bachelor. I have a PhD in life experience if that counts for anything. :-)
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
31 Mar 18
Life experience and common sense are priceless! What kind of fine arts did you study?
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
31 Mar 18
@Starmaiden I have a friend who lives in Vancouver and works in theater productions from time to time. I haven't talked to her lately, but then, I tend to fall out of contact easily.
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@Starmaiden (9311)
• Canada
31 Mar 18
@OneOfMany I studied the Performing Arts. Acting for films, television and Theatre at a private college in Vancouver. Very expensive but very rewarding. :-)
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@snowy22315 (180870)
• United States
1 Apr 18
I have a Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling. I have not worked in the field for a while though. It can be depressing. I am not interested in it at this point in time either.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 Apr 18
I have not been officially hired into what my degrees cover, but I do use the knowledge I gained with each to forge what I need to know in life. Engineering taught me how to learn (because it was really difficult) and apply that knowledge. The other one taught me how badly things need to change, and not in the direction of their mindset.
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@snowy22315 (180870)
• United States
1 Apr 18
@OneOfMany It's valuable, if only from the fact that it teaches you how to think critically. Also, I wouldn't have learned the majority of that material on my own.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 Apr 18
@snowy22315 I certainly wouldn't have pressed myself to learn engineering.
@maezee (41988)
• United States
1 Apr 18
You have some impressive degrees. Did they help you get where you want to be? I have a bachelors in psychology which hasnt helped me much in the world of job hunting or career advancing. I am debating goig back to school for an additional bachelor or masters.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 Apr 18
Unfortunately, they did not help me with employment, but that doesn't mean the knowledge was wasted. I still use what I have learned and am applying it to the world around me and potentially the greater world. My greatest asset is my imagination, so the more I know, the more powerful it becomes. I am working on several things to help the world out, if it wants to be helped.
I actually got my masters online. It was the same program as the in class one, you just need an internet connection that's reliable. Most of my classmates were working in careers while doing classes. It's a far less expensive way to do things, especially from your own home.
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@sprite1950 (30452)
• Corsham, England
31 Mar 18
I'm educated to A level and went to college to train as a Secretary .. that's it .. so I would be no match for you in a debate I'm afraid. However this site is for people of all intellectual levels so it doesn't matter how clever you are there is room for everyone, degree or no degree.
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@sprite1950 (30452)
• Corsham, England
31 Mar 18
@OneOfMany I'm not much good at getting my point across in an online discussion, even worse in a face to face discussion, I get tongue tied and I can guarantee someone will shoot me down in flames
I like the fact that there are all kinds of people here, different levels of education, different backgrounds, It's one of the reasons this site is so successful.
I like the fact that there are all kinds of people here, different levels of education, different backgrounds, It's one of the reasons this site is so successful.2 people like this
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
31 Mar 18
@sprite1950 You know what an uneducated person has to some degree that an educated person lacks? Purity. All parts of higher education will try to mold their students to their views. College professors do it often, heck, even regular teachers try to push their own views. Those who are easily molded by their teacher pick up the same value, or are at least affected by it. When you educate yourself, you obtain a higher level of purity, because you aren't tainted by everyone else.
That's what I feel, at least. However, that doesn't mean they won't be tainted by family, religion, or the media. But at least they chose that direction on their own, and weren't molded by an educator to be that way.
Although, I regularly rebelled against brainwash attempts by my professors. I was always happy to argue with them if a discussion went in that direction! Otherwise I was daydreaming. I don't learn well in a classroom environment!
Otherwise I was daydreaming. I don't learn well in a classroom environment!3 people like this
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
31 Mar 18
Secretaries are needed too! I'm actually the secretary for the volunteer organization I participate in. Some of the duties are annoying, but oh well. More people have been attending the meetings since I took the role.
I don't like debates, anyway. I like discussions with value.
And of course, I'm just interested to see who's done what.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
31 Mar 18
I confess. I have a B.A in English with a history minor from UCLA, 1964, just before things got rowdy there. I did a year of graduate work to get the lifetime teaching credential I never really wanted. I wanted an M.A. in Library Science, but got married and moved where no library school was close.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
2 Apr 18
@OneOfMany I organized my church library as a volunteer. But mostly I sold books, first in a bookstore, where I also wrote the newsletter, and later as an online bookseller for abo9ut twenty years.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
2 Apr 18
@bagarad How many books were your own? :)
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 Apr 18
Ouch, that's difficult being deprived of what you want to do. I wanted to write, after I developed a love for it in college, but I stuck to my degrees and worked on it on the side. It took ten years past the time I wanted to get into it, which is unfortunate. I did learn about things that were helpful in that time, and no experience was wasted when it comes to knowledge.
Were you ever able to do anything with your desired field? Or just accepted it wasn't meant to be after you moved?
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@RasmaSandra (79929)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 Mar 18
I have a BS degree in Marketing but never worked in that field. I worked in ocean marine insurance.Today with all I do online I could say I have a degree in writing on various sites and a blogging degree for sure.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 Apr 18
In the end, there are so many of us that start out in one field but it doesn't pan out. For engineering, they wouldn't hire anyone without 5 years of experience. When asked where one gets the experience, there was no answer.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
1 Apr 18
I often wondered how educated the people of several sites are as well but I never expect an honest answer.After all this is a world (online) where you can be what you want to be. When some people tell me what level of education they have I often do not believe them, They cannot act as they do and be that educated.
Stupid is as stupid does? Not hardly! Con men often act one way but are insulting your intelligence but "fooling" you..
I often wonder why people get degrees in certain areas and then never use that degree.
Have you ever ran into someone who is self educated? I mean they did not have the money to go to college but could buy and read all the books that are used to learn,they read them and applied them to life, how would you category that person?
How about those people who were tested and have high IQ`s and never go to college but thrive in life?
Well, I just said everything but what was asked.
I chose not to say, I do not think I would be treated any differently no matter the answer.
But I will say that I have learned more in the past 10 years from living life that I did in any school.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 Apr 18
As I have told other people, I'm an internet scholar, in that I continuously strive to learn new things from searching for it. People sometimes ask me how I know how to do things, and I tell them I'm self taught. Truthfully, I could say that I am mostly self-taught, because lectures and notes and oral lessons never helped me. In the end, I would have to teach myself the material through reading and comprehension. I always spent my time in class daydreaming, because to me, they might have been up there saying, "blah blah, blah."
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@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
31 Mar 18
I am very much a dimwit, but I have a lot of trival knowledge that not many care to know but are great conversation starters. I have my Bachelor of the Fine Arts in Creative Writing for Entertainment.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
31 Mar 18
You were into script writing for a while, right? How's that going?
@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
3 Apr 18
@OneOfMany I still am. I'm currently working on a graphic novel.
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@KiraCatseye (9)
• Las Cruces, New Mexico
31 Mar 18
I personally only graduated high school. though i learned alot from just getting jobs and reading books. I found it alot cheaper to teach my self.
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
31 Mar 18
It's a lot cheaper to teach yourself. There's less pressure, and you learn because you want to learn. It makes for longer lasting knowledge.
I never got anything from copying notes from a board.
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@allknowing (136592)
• India
1 Apr 18
Education and qualifications are two different entities. Qualifications alone do not educate a person. There are other avenues. With the Internet at our disposal there is no limit to avenues that are available for one to get educated.
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@allknowing (136592)
• India
1 Apr 18
@OneOfMany But you were keen on knowing what degrees myLotters hold.
We both seem to agree that it is one's exposure that helps with education.
We both seem to agree that it is one's exposure that helps with education.1 person likes this
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 Apr 18
@allknowing Well, during writing than that, my ego was inflating and I ignored my principles that people can be smart without a formal education. I'm still curious about who holds what. :P
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 Apr 18
Which is why I asked about education. You can self-educate, I was just curious about degrees out there. I have learned far more out of college and university than I learned within them.
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32695)
• Calgary, Alberta
1 Apr 18
I finished Highschool but I never been to college but for some unknown reason, I managed to get a corporate job for 10 years. I worked for a call center as a customer service rep and I managed to climb the corporate ladder and outperform some college grads. Heck I trained people with higher education than me. I am all street smart.
I quit that corporate job and go for a Blue collar job for greener pastures in Canada.I do not want to raise children in the 3rd world. I want them to have the best healthcare and I want them to be free from a society that always votes the wrong politicians. I left my home for Canada. I am saving up money and maybe I will finally give College a try.
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32695)
• Calgary, Alberta
1 Apr 18
@OneOfMany I want to take film. I always wanted to be a director. The little Geek in my always die inside when I see those crappy Hollywood adaptations. I know New York film school have an online school, I may consider than since I do not really like the idea of going to school again and be surrounded by teenage acting college kids.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 Apr 18
@CaptAlbertWhisker Hollywood is bloated and terrible anymore. They ran out of good ideas a long time ago. Now they parasite books and other people's success, and still make horrible versions! lol
Dealing with the immaturity levels is generally not helpful.
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 Apr 18
If you can find a job and climb up, that tends to work out better in the long run than getting the degree first. You are still fresh to being taught after high school, and after college you really can't easily cram more in your head.
There's always the option of online college degrees, if you learn just as well out of the classroom. I did that for my masters degree. Although, in any that have lab work, you have to be at the school.
@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
1 Apr 18
All I have; besides years of experience, is a Degree in Criminal Justice @OneOfMany . I have found that if I write about something that is not 'mundane', it gets very few views.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 Apr 18
@nanette64 That's a fair amount. I have posted mini stories in the past, though I can't remember if they were on here or Bubblews, and I'm too lazy to trek through my discussions to find out! lol
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 Apr 18
Yes, I find that as well, though it doesn't hurt to try from time to time. Those years of experience might be life-saving to someone! If you have learned something that might help someone, that's something to share. :)
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
1 Apr 18
@OneOfMany I think I've written about everything from politics, news & issues, to science, to pets & animals, to medical; you name it. Not to mention the poetry thing.
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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2 Apr 18
I have a BA in Religious Studies and Sociology, and a Post-Graduate Certificate of Education which enables me to teach 11-18 year olds. I want desperately to do a Masters, but it costs too much money so I need to save up. Humpf. In the meantime I indulge my thirst for learning by doing odd little free courses which skim the surface of subjects such as Philosophy and Psychology.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
3 Apr 18
I got my masters online, and it was the same program as the in-class one. If you can do that, it will cost far less.
I love to research random things. I know processes of things and facts and people say "how do you know that?" because it is just weird. I tell them that I just absorb knowledge. Even weird knowledge is good to have! (The recent bit of knowledge questioned was related to egg laying rates of chickens and life expectancy. I got curious!)
@Hannihar (130218)
• Israel
1 Apr 18
@OneOfMany
Morgan, I have a B.A. degree but there are days I feel so stupid and silly.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 Apr 18
Everyone has those days. It's what lets us feel alive, and not like we're trapped in a dictionary! Part of what I have been fishing for is self-education, because I'm far beyond what I could have been 'taught', just by absorbing information.
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@YrNemo (20255)
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1 Apr 18
I have some ancient piece of papers which are close to a PhD but will never reach that level since I am too old and weary now to do any further degrees Yes, I work in my field. HOWEVER, I think I have very low IQs (never tried but guess I would be) and very naive in worldly matters. Regardless, I could argue very well on certain topics which have nothing to do with my field of studies . Makes any sense to you?
. Makes any sense to you?1 person likes this
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 Apr 18
Yes, perfectly. :) It is hard to recognize talents through education. Most of those come from living.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
1 Apr 18
@YrNemo It is a melting pot. I like positive discussions on here. Some get me upset instead. :P
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@YrNemo (20255)
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1 Apr 18
@OneOfMany this site has many wonderful members. I have learned lots from them.
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