I think you have hit the nail on the head there, most jobs now are continual learning and training, over the last 20 years that I have been with my employer I have been going to college doing different training loads of times. The problem is I left school and went into an “engineering” apprenticeship and from there working hard and proving my self moved up to management, but I see people becoming my managers who have little experience but do have something I don’t and that’s a degree, A degree is still the gold standard but only once you have actually got a job there are loads of people with degrees who are out of work and one or two in work that are not using the degree, ie they could have got the same job without the degree.Fatty eats roadkill wrote:Worth a try though
With all the learning and training we have to do and continue doing it may as well be.
In today’s day and age I would have pushed myself to go to uni but thirty years ago when I left school most average kids like me drifted into work from the age of 16, missing out on broadening the mind and the university life. Also lots of the training I have done keeps getting superseded and has to be redone again I don’t know how many times I have to do HNC then its NVQ and now its foundation degree, Im sure a BA/Msc is a BA/Msc for ever and not poo poo`d as being out of date, don’t even mention the two years I wasted doing City and Guilds which are now given out like book tokens.
I will be pushing my Kids to go to Uni for some of the reasons shown in this tread, people with degree`s are still thought of as superior whether they are is debatable, especially these days when lots of people have them and the pay gap between the "lowly" electrician and the degree educated (30k debt) electric engineer is shrinking year on year.