What qualifications do you have?

11 GCSEs
4 A Levels
BA History (Well, moving into my third year...)

Then hopefully doing an MA in either English Lit. or Modern European History then a law conversion, fun times.
 
Hatter The Mad said:
You're an exception. The majority of people who don't have any qualifications or arse around in school don't end up having a career (at all) or being successful financially.
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My dads a plasterer , left school with no quals. He built the house we live in and drives a mercedes, and goes on holiday 3-4 times a year, i'd say he has done rather well .
 
Bassmansam said:
My dads a plasterer , left school with no quals. He built the house we live in and drives a mercedes, and goes on holiday 3-4 times a year, i'd say he has done rather well .
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A house made out of plaster, a smart car and 4 long weekends to skegness?





Seriously though,

He has a trade though, i think whats implied by "left school" is going straight into work.
 
Only one more year left of my BEd (Hons) Business Studies degree. I have a DipABRSM in flute music performance and various other music qualifications for flute, violin and piano as well as music theory and at the minute i'm working words the LTCL Flute diploma. I have 3 x A levels and 9 x GCSE's aswell as all the OCR/RSA wordprocessing and textprocessing qualifications. Planning on doing an MBA once I've finished my degree while looking for some subbing work to keep up the teaching. With the current job situation over here in NI i'm not likely to find a pernament job straight away.
 
sidthesexist said:
This^^ after leaving school i started an apprenticeship as a precision engineer, (never finished it) after a week of being at the company they sent me to a engineering training center, when i got there i found there was two people who had just finished their degree's in mechanical engineering but once you put them in front of a lathe or mill they had absolutely no idea how to make anything.
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Thats because Mechanical Engineering doesnt even attempt to teach you how to do that. :confused:
 
sidthesexist said:
This^^ after leaving school i started an apprenticeship as a precision engineer, (never finished it) after a week of being at the company they sent me to a engineering training center, when i got there i found there was two people who had just finished their degree's in mechanical engineering but once you put them in front of a lathe or mill they had absolutely no idea how to make anything.
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That's uh... not what you do a degree in Mech Eng for, nor does it teach you. Do you really think they just do practical tool work for 4 years?
 
7 Standard Grades or something.
NC Computing
HNC Computing and Networking
HND Computing, Networking and Administration

Hopefully be going to do my BSc in computer networking after summer.
 
sidthesexist said:
No but after three or more years of doing a degree they should surely at least know the basics? like how to turn a lathe on? or how to mill a block of steel into a cube..?
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You dont learn machinist skills in a mechanical engineering degree. They are two completely different subjects.
If you wanted to learn how to be a machinist then you wouldnt do a degree, you would do a BTEC diploma in machining/CNC operating etc.
 
Hatter The Mad said:
That's uh... not what you do a degree in Mech Eng for, nor does it teach you. Do you really think they just do practical tool work for 4 years?
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:D:D

You dont learn machinist skills in a mechanical engineering degree
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You do.

We were taught how to use all the mills, lathes, drills etc (plus welding) during our first year of the course, but I had used them and Oxy/Acet + MIG welded at school anyway.

Must be a crap course and crap uni if they wern't taught how to use the machines in the lab, especially as as how on earth did they build their 3rd/4th year projects. Hand tools ? ;)
 
-Ad- said:
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You do.

We were taught how to use all the mills, lathes, drills etc (plus welding) during our first year of the course, but I had used them and Oxy/Acet + MIG welded at school anyway.

Must be a crap course and crap uni if they wern't taught how to use the machines in the lab, especially as as how on earth did they build their 3rd/4th year projects. Hand tools ? ;)
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So was I actually :o too many years ago made me forget. Didnt build my final project, it was conceptual design and implementation. I learnt machining and metalwork skills at college anyway, and in my career so far Ive not used machining or welding skills once, without sounding like a big-head I instruct and manage the machinsts and welders.
 
Kennysevenfold said:
8 standard grades,
CompTIA A+
N+
HNC Computing
HND Tech Support
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Hope you dont mind me asking, but what sort of things do you learn in HND Tech Support? I thought an HND is a pretty high qualification (inbetween a BTEC and BSc?) However tech support cannot really be learnt, unless you are being tought at a test centre where there are virtual servers and users etc
 
-Ad- said:
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You do.

We were taught how to use all the mills, lathes, drills etc (plus welding) during our first year of the course, but I had used them and Oxy/Acet + MIG welded at school anyway.
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Thats a bit different to using the machines accurately to replicate the drawing in a fashion that meets the GD&T requirements from the various datums.

We made kitchen scales in our first year, wow.
 
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