Which degree for most lucritive job?

nesf

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How are ya Mark, ya should'nt be using boards in work, you should be playing WOW!! Did your Da sell the house yet? It's an A3 by the way!!:D

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juanveron45

Hi Qubec,

Thanks for recommending the MSISS degree to me it looks very interesting and what I like about it is that its very broad and flexible, alas i have 2 problems

1.I dont have enough points to apply as my LC points were very low but since im 28 I would be applying as a mature student anyway, I have a diploma in analytical chemistry from I.T Carlow which may help my case but there are only 24 places so my chances are very slim I would say, would you say my chances are romote?

2.I will have to work parttime to finance myself going back to uni,is this possible while doing this course?

thanks

damnyanks

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If you have have a company that makes widgets who do you want as the boss? Some bean counter or arty/business type who doesn't really under stand what you do or someone who knows what you do, how it works, what its for etc.

Nit picking but the head of yahoo is a bean counter. Degree doesnt matter, once you get to that level you're an expert in the field one way or another

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How are ya Mark, ya should'nt be using boards in work, you should be playing WOW!! Did your Da sell the house yet? It's an A3 by the way!!

jesus its a small world.....kinda feel wierd now talking about him lol

This doesn't sound at all right and I'm an engineer. I'd say that 70% of all CEOs were accountants and about 15% engineers.

It doesn't make any sense, how many companies are engineering based? Certainly less that 50% of companies. Why would at least 40% of companies that aren't engineering based have engineers as CEO?

I'd like to see some linkage to back up the original claim.

if i remember correctly we were told that it was because of there problem solving / reasoning skills they work there way up threw the engineering field and then decide to apply it to the business world but it was obviously guidance counsellor bull if people in the actual field dont really know anything close to it.....my bad

nesf

damnyanks wrote:

Nit picking but the head of yahoo is a bean counter. Degree doesnt matter, once you get to that level you're an expert in the field one way or another

Well outside of engineering, medicine, nursing et al what your degree isn't going to define you very much once you've been working for 5/6 years. People will only be looking at your work experience at that stage in general. There are exceptions, your PhD subject might still be of relevance etc depending on the field you work in, but by and large companies will be hiring (and firing) you based on what you've done/achieved in the workplace and not on what you marks you got in the second year of your degree.

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juanveron45 wrote:

1.I dont have enough points to apply as my LC points were very low but since im 28 I would be applying as a mature student anyway, I have a diploma in analytical chemistry from I.T Carlow which may help my case but there are only 24 places so my chances are very slim I would say, would you say my chances are romote?


thanks

my mother applied to trinity as a mature student and as far as i know most if not all the courses have places set aside for mature students so if theres 24 places there is maybe 1 / 2 for a mature student so ur not competeing with the leaving certers just with other mature students

i am pretty sure you have missed the deadline for mature application threw the cao for next september though just in case your thinking of doing this this year so id check the site as if its not gone its very close

nesf wrote:

Well outside of engineering, medicine, nursing et al what your degree isn't going to define you very much once you've been working for 5/6 years. People will only be looking at your work experience at that stage in general. There are exceptions, your PhD subject might still be of relevance etc depending on the field you work in, but by and large companies will be hiring (and firing) you based on what you've done/achieved in the workplace and not on what you marks you got in the second year of your degree.

check any recruitment site and a huge number of jobs say some form of third level education prefered i think its to show you can stick something out at this stage unless its a more specialised area