You all sound very clever. What are your qualifications?

Question

Or do you think qualifications aren't worth the paper their written on?

ooops my naff english o'level made me put their instead of the corrected word

Answer 1

The University of Life

Answer 2

Got a few GCEs and GCSEs and an A level, all since I left school. Just to show that I could. (I was a complete rebel at school)
A few tickets in electrical engineering. Very useful because Iwouldn't have earned as much without them.
A couple of diplomas in complementary therapy. Most useful, really, because they do show clients that I've done the studying and know what I'm on about. There are too many people in my field who practice with little or no knowledge of the subject.

Answer 3

My name is clevergirl, so naturally I have to live up to it... ish. I think some qualifications are just rubbish, I used to work at a newsagents and there were people there with stupid degrees that they can't find a job for, like fine art and history or art. I'm at college now, waiting for that lovely bit of paper so I can go out in the world...

Answer 4

in 3rd year of degree.

i think qualifications give you more than just the qualification - its the process of doing it that teaches you so much. For example the hardest part about my degree is motivating myself, choosing my assignment topics, breaking them down and planning my time to write them etc. Its so different to being at work, as at work you have somebody to report to if you don't get things done, and an environment where other people are working too. But I am at home on my own writing my assignments with nobody to answer to if I don't get it done (tutors don't breathe down your neck at uni, if you don't hand it in its your loss).

so basically i think a degree is worth a lot.

Answer 5

BA Hons Degree. And its not worth the paper its written on because I lost that bit of paper a couple of years ago. In fact not one job I've applied to since leaving university including the one i work in now has asked me provide evidence of my degree.

In fact from now I'm going to call myself Professor Fox, see if anyone calls me on it. I did think about Dr. Fox but that one is already sewed up. Y'know I'd be fairly sure he isn't a real doctor. Or a real fox for that matter. Wonder could he outrun a pack of bloodthirsty hounds...

Answer 6

I have qualifications which took eight years to get.
However, that doesn't mean I have any common sense.

I could wave my papers to get a career, and make a pigs ear out of the whole thing; without life's much needed qualification of common sense...

I don't want to list my achievements, it feels a bit like showing off.
Yes, they did get me a good career.

Answer 7

Qualifications rule the world; you can brandish them to gain access to and continued employment with seriously lucrative environments, whilst having forgotten all that you ever knew and having zero aptitude for the position - a success story through constant failure.
I am self educated where success is unrewarded - Can I have your qualifications?

Answer 8

well, i left school at 16 without any qualifcations. since then, i achieved a key skills level 2 in numeracy, level 3 in key skills in a returners course, GCSEs C and D in oral assessments and coursework in english, level 3 on a access to media studies course and i am hoping and expected to graduate wth BA honours in media arts with journalism this summer of 2007 at the ripe age of 26. i am currently in my final year at university

Answer 9

I am a qualified administrator. I am currently making my way towards being a corporate lawyer.

My mom always says that education is not common sense.

We all need a bit of both

Answer 10

I have a number of qualifications, unfortunately none of them taught me common sense, something which, sometimes, I am really lacking in. Wish there was a degree in it