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Are You Getting an Arts Degree?
SirSkyRider:
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--- Quote from: SirSkyRider on March 06, 2012, 08:54:06 PM ---lol.
Getting a degree and getting a job should be two different things. You go and study something because you are interested. If you only want a job you could as well do an apprenticeship.
Well, that's at least my view on this affair.
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So the only way you should get a job is to become a tradesmen?
Sorry, the jobs I want to do, don't have that kind of set up...
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I'm not saying that. But if what you do doesn't at least interest you one bit, it's wasted time. Because if you don't like what you're doing, you'll fail.
Going to university and studying while paying for four to five years has at least have something to do with things you like. If you're saying you like what you're doing - OK, no problem there. But it defies the original purpose of a university to say that it exists only to get you a job. Because that is not the premise universities are built on.
harpy:
--- Quote from: SirSkyRider on March 06, 2012, 07:40:51 PM ---
--- Quote from: SirSkyRider on March 06, 2012, 07:01:19 PM ---Don't you even have to take tests to get into music or art academies?
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You dumb or what? One have to take exams or test or something of that sort to get in ANY KIND OF SCHOOL :D
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No... I got into university just by showing them my Abitur grades. Here, only private academies or some subjects come with a test. I think this is quite different in your country.
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oh, well, we do have to pass an exam to get into a school if it is worth getting into. There are some that you just need money to get in.
As far as I know art schools always have exams, the rest of the schools might not have exams, just maoney donations...
@metro - people are dumb, schools would get out of business if it would be hard to get a degree. Even looking and exams that have to be taken after finishing elementary school one can think - ok, even I knew that in 5th grade....
In my country we do accept degrees from most countries, but not america. One can get a doctor degree there just by completing one year of master degree program here...mmm, or just finishing bachelor degree... forgot. Bac to the point - American culture makes the rest of the world as dumb as some of them are. There are loads of great minds there, but regrettably there are much more dumb ones as well :(
And its in fact good, its simpler to rule dumb people and there are to many people for them to be smart and be able to live together. Its sad that job applications do have to contain some kind of degree as most of the time one do not need any of that to do the job, it would be better if they got vocational education insted of crap they get.
I do agree doctors and chemists and people like that should get a degree...a few of them, but the rest of the world no not need them for job, but for themselves.
Besides - just because you pass the course it does not mean that you understand the subject :D even a parrot can repeat stuff ;)
I know loads and loads pf parrots that kept on getting better grades then I did and flunked the final stuff :D I not saying that I am any smarter then any of them, I am dumb as door nail, but I did understand what I said and did not just learn it by heart.
metro.:
--- Quote from: SirSkyRider on March 06, 2012, 09:08:47 PM ---
--- Quote from: metro. on March 06, 2012, 09:01:36 PM ---
--- Quote from: SirSkyRider on March 06, 2012, 08:54:06 PM ---lol.
Getting a degree and getting a job should be two different things. You go and study something because you are interested. If you only want a job you could as well do an apprenticeship.
Well, that's at least my view on this affair.
--- End quote ---
So the only way you should get a job is to become a tradesmen?
Sorry, the jobs I want to do, don't have that kind of set up...
--- End quote ---
I'm not saying that. But if what you do doesn't at least interest you one bit, it's wasted time. Because if you don't like what you're doing, you'll fail.
Going to university and studying while paying for four to five years has at least have something to do with things you like. If you're saying you like what you're doing - OK, no problem there. But it defies the original purpose of a university to say that it exists only to get you a job. Because that is not the premise universities are built on.
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Hm...I think I made this point. I'd rather do something that I like, but don't love, for four years to get to a job I love. Then the opposite, do something I love for four years, and then not love life for the rest of it.
I like Economics, understanding money and the motives behind peoples desires to buy, spend, or I suppose better, pursue, but I could never lock myself in Academia doing just that for the rest of my life.
It does however, open doors to the places that I want to end up.
SirSkyRider:
A degree may be a door opener, but lemme tell you one thing: Networking is as important as having a good degree. Go somewhere, do an internship and leave a good impression. It may lead to you being recommended to other companies - or maybe even a job offer...
metro.:
--- Quote from: SirSkyRider on March 06, 2012, 09:28:03 PM ---A degree may be a door opener, but lemme tell you one thing: Networking is as important as having a good degree. Go somewhere, do an internship and leave a good impression. It may lead to you being recommended to other companies - or maybe even a job offer...
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I don't think my point is getting across very clear...
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