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People With Lots of Academic Qualifications

  • 03-05-2010 8:52pm
    #1
    piby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 539 ✭✭✭piby


    There I was a guy I was chatting to a few weeks ago whose academic acheivements looked like this on paper:

    BA, MSc, Ma, HDip, PGCert, PhD (provisional)

    He actually had two PGCerts but I believe that you only write it down once on paper! As if that wasn't enough he was also halfway through his PhD!! In fairness that guy was well into his 40's so he must have worked at some point in his life but it's still an outrageous selection. I mean is it really necessary to have that many?!!

    I also know a fair few people who have multiple masters etc. So what the most (academically) qualified person you've ever met?


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  • #2
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I know a few McD's.


  • #3
    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    I've done my junior cert.

    So that makes me a JC.


  • #4
    Leeg17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,127 ✭✭✭✭Leeg17


    piby wrote: »
    PhD

    Teehee, you said a dirty word!! :D


  • #5
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Hahaha.
    BA.
    Pffft.


  • #6
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    is this guy in his forties? has he spent the last 20 years in college just to get all those qualifications? and now he comes out into a recession. figures :rolleyes:


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  • #7
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    piby wrote: »
    There I was a guy I was chatting to a few weeks ago whose academic acheivements looked like this on paper:

    BA, MSc, Ma, HDip, PGCert, PhD (provisional)

    Looks like a lot of college lecturers/professors to me.
    piby wrote: »
    He actually had two PGCerts but I believe that you only write it down once on paper! As if that wasn't enough he was also halfway through his PhD!! In fairness that guy was well into his 40's so he must have worked at some point in his life but it's still an outrageous selection. I mean is it really necessary to have that many?!!

    I also know a fair few people who have multiple masters etc. So what the most (academically) qualified person you've ever met?

    From that list, he has clearly been working all his life, being an academic is a job, one of the most important jobs imo.


  • #8
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    I shared a house with a Guy once that had never worked a day in his life, he was in his last 30's and was forever going to college, he told me he would never be able to get a job because he was over qualified.


  • #9
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    piby wrote: »
    BA, MSc, Ma, HDip, PGCert, PhD (provisional)

    PGCert? Hah!

    I once had full sex with a woman. That must make me at least a 16Cert.


  • #10
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    I'm BCorpL, LLB, LLM, AITI,

    And I'm 27 ;)


  • #11
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    piby wrote: »
    PhD (provisional)

    Can he drive on his own with that?


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  • #12
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    whiteman19 wrote: »
    is this guy in his forties? has he spent the last 20 years in college just to get all those qualifications? and now he comes out into a recession. figures :rolleyes:

    not necessarily

    plenty people do part time courses/research while working to add to their qualifications


  • #13
    piby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 539 ✭✭✭piby


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Can he drive on his own with that?

    No he has to be accompanied by a fully qualified PhD until he passes his viva.


  • #14
    stepbar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,123 ✭✭✭stepbar


    piby wrote: »
    There I was a guy I was chatting to a few weeks ago whose academic acheivements looked like this on paper:

    BA, MSc, Ma, HDip, PGCert, PhD (provisional)

    He actually had two PGCerts but I believe that you only write it down once on paper! As if that wasn't enough he was also halfway through his PhD!! In fairness that guy was well into his 40's so he must have worked at some point in his life but it's still an outrageous selection. I mean is it really necessary to have that many?!!

    I also know a fair few people who have multiple masters etc. So what the most (academically) qualified person you've ever met?

    Oh I've met a few.... and the majority I've met are social monks.


  • #15
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,807 ✭✭✭take everything


    stepbar wrote: »
    Oh I've met a few.... and the majority I've met are social monks.

    Better than antisocial ones i suppose.

    Was that Maynooth?


  • #16
    cson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,476 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    I'm BCorpL, LLB, LLM, AITI,

    And I'm 27 ;)

    In the words of Andy Gray; take a boo son.


  • #17
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Master Lonad Esq.


  • #18
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    sam34 wrote: »
    not necessarily

    plenty people do part time courses/research while working to add to their qualifications

    That's true alright but even excluding those who study on the side, I really don't get this attitude that they are somehow stuck in college their whole life or that they don't have a "job". Phd students/postdocs, guess what, they get paid for that, it is a job. Lecturers might be viewed more as job holders to the general public than the postgrads/postdocs below them but their teaching is a very small part of what they do, they are basically a higher rank of student. Studying and research is one of the most fundamental jobs there is, the most important I think.
    stepbar wrote: »
    Oh I've met a few.... and the majority I've met are social monks.

    Well that's nonsense, I would think quite the opposite, anyone with that many qualifications is generally always lecturing, giving talks/presentations, presenting conferences on a grand scale, they're hardly shy and retiring.


  • #19
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,446 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    BSc = Bullshít
    Msc = More Shít
    PhD = Piled higher and deeper


  • #20
    Seloth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭Seloth


    Anyone explain to me what a postgrad primary degree is?


  • #21
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Seloth wrote: »
    Anyone explain to me what a postgrad primary degree is?

    Only if you tell me what a tracker mortgage is. :pac:


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  • #22
    RATM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭RATM


    Thats nuffin OP. A sister of mine is a consultant in anesthetics and has 27 letters after her name. Signing cheques requires more than the alphabet can offer :D

    I myself have a lot of letters after my name but only because I'm great. In fact I'm so great that I think I should get both of the parachutes:pac:


  • #23
    Conor108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    "More degrees than a thermometer" - Ross O'Carroll-Kelly


  • #24
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    My Dad has got loads of letters after his name, he has done so many masters courses, many of them paid for by his work because they were relevant qualifications. He also guest lectures on occasion. My brother, however, went straight from his undergrad into a PhD and is graduating this week, which makes him higher up than my Dad.


  • #25
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,488 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Seloth wrote: »
    Anyone explain to me what a postgrad primary degree is?

    The 11-plus? I think they scrapped that a while back.


  • #26
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Can get many qualifications while working. It's always good to learn, plus if you are interested in a subject why not?


  • #27
    jayteecork
    Site Banned Posts: 5,676 ✭✭✭jayteecork


    I remember in school thinking that if one pursued a Phd s/he had to be a real genius and the idea was you needed to contribute something completely new and amazing to your field of study.

    Then I got to college and realised any auld eejit with a 2h1/time can do one.


  • #28
    SugarHigh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭SugarHigh


    RATM wrote: »
    Thats nuffin OP. A sister of mine is a consultant in anesthetics and has 27 letters after her name. Signing cheques requires more than the alphabet can offer :D

    I myself have a lot of letters after my name but only because I'm great. In fact I'm so great that I think I should get both of the parachutes:pac:
    wtf does she sign her name with, alphabet soup?

    YOu do know you're allowed to use the same letter more than once?


  • #29
    Sheeps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,762 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    BSc = Bullshít
    Msc = More Shít
    PhD = Piled higher and deeper
    Is that what your manager told you when you had no customers to serve in burger king?


  • #30
    Sheeps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,762 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    Congrats on not understanding academia OP.


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  • #31
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    piby wrote: »
    There I was a guy I was chatting to a few weeks ago whose academic acheivements looked like this on paper:

    BA, MSc, Ma, HDip, PGCert, PhD (provisional)

    He actually had two PGCerts but I believe that you only write it down once on paper! As if that wasn't enough he was also halfway through his PhD!! In fairness that guy was well into his 40's so he must have worked at some point in his life but it's still an outrageous selection. I mean is it really necessary to have that many?!!

    I also know a fair few people who have multiple masters etc. So what the most (academically) qualified person you've ever met?

    I often wonder if I should have bothered with a BA. Work experience seems to be valued just as much.


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