Qualification versus job

[AdamW]

After Masona's thread on us being too nice, I got to thinking about how I know very few people who have a job directly related to what they have studied.

So, do we have any qualified pilots working as builders, or qualified plumbers who then went to medical school (presumably geneto-urinary doctors ) here?

Personally, I am a Physics graduate who currently works as an aerospace engineer. The two are fairly closely related, but for a while I wanted to be an organ builder.

 

[Diyisfun]

Qualifications are necessary when young, the older you get the less important.

 

[Johndug]

I got to thinking about how I know very few people who have a job directly related to what they have studied.

Funny to read your topic this morning. We had a visit from one of our daughters last night. She'd been away for the weekend on a university reunion. Their course had covered mathematics and statistics. Of the fifteen or so ex-students who had been there, I asked her how many were still statisticians twenty years later. Most were, but one was a headmaster and another a BA pilot.

 

[Slogger]

dont you think a doctors job is a tad easier than being a plumber ? i mean doctors are only ever working on one model whereas a plumber ( parts changer ) has to work with a multitude of models


just a thought

have you ever self diagnosed your self then went to docs to err pass on your revelations only to be brow beaten and treat for something you hadnt diagnosed ? i have and i was right the first time still have yet to recieve an apology of said QUACK


the tinternet is full of info

 

[kendor]

dont you think a doctors job is a tad easier than being a plumber ? i mean doctors are only ever working on one model whereas a plumber ( parts changer ) has to work with a multitude of models

Which sex do doctors have to choose? and what age group? and then all the different illnesses.
Now had you said electrician!

 

[2scoops0406]

After Masona's thread on us being too nice, I got to thinking about how I know very few people who have a job directly related to what they have studied.

So, do we have any qualified pilots working as builders, or qualified plumbers who then went to medical school (presumably geneto-urinary doctors ) here?

Personally, I am a Physics graduate who currently works as an aerospace engineer. The two are fairly closely related, but for a while I wanted to be an organ builder.

Were you going to specialise, eg. say kidneys and liver, or was it an all encompassing role you were thinking of at the time? Personally I opted for the liver destroyer at uni.

 

[kendor]

Personally I opted for the liver destroyer at uni.

Our canteen at work is good for doing that

 

[securespark]

In my previous existence, I was a food technician...

 

[WoodYouLike]

Qualifications are necessary when young, the older you get the less important.

Left school after A-levels (well Dutch equivalent of), didn't really know what to do next so started working as junior admin help in office. Then I got qualifications (by evening/home study) to move upwards and am now qualified 'jack-of-all-trades' in admin, bookkeeping, statistics, logistics, IT, sales, after-sales, marketing etc enabling us now to run our own company without to many costs for accountants, IT-ers, web designers, business advisors. Oh and I know a bit of DIY

What I really mean is that only a few know exactly what they want to do during there first/second education so can (will) choose the 'correct' training/qualifications after that, for most of us it's 'trial and error?'

 

[Nige F]

After Masona's thread on us being too nice, closely related, but for a while I wanted to be an organ builder.

You can buy vacuum devices for that on the net Ps. Nature abhors a vacuum. Some sillyarse`s law of physics I am so sad that I wanted to be a plumber from an early age If I had been able to master maths and physics I would have endeavoured to become an Architect

 

[PowerTool]

I studied agriculture,and work in road transport.
(Not very related,but..worked on a farm,farm bought a wagon,drove wagon delivering/collecting from farms;boss bought another wagon,put it to work for a friend who owned a chemical transport company,I ended up driving that,worked my way into the traffic office,moved from wagons to tanks...and here I am )

 

[Diyisfun]

WoodYouLike

What I really mean is that only a few know exactly what they want to do during there first/second education so can (will) choose the 'correct' training/qualifications after that, for most of us it's 'trial and error?'

That is along the lines of what I was saying, ie the more you study, the more diverse, the more you are capable of.

I left school with didilee F all, Went to evening classes, apprentiship, landed a good job, now Im old, wise, but not skint.

 

[Thermo]

ie got loads of different qualifications i picked during my younger day and during my other career. The majority have no direct relevance to what i do know apart obviously from the building one, but as diy says, they have given me the confidence to do what i do, and i think i draw on them all at certain times. (they also let me bullshit well when i need to!)

 

[B.O.B DOLE]

Qualifications are necessary when young, the older you get the less important.

WHAT A LOAD OF CR.AP these so called young lads with a libary full of
quals and a mouth full of bu.ll sh.it dont know 5% of the things i know in my provesion

 

[petewood]

Bob what do you do for a living?