What do you think of ppl with multiple degrees/qualifications etc?

[lapitup]

What do you think of a person when you hear they have a more than average amount of degrees/postgrads/masters etc and qualifications?

Do you think...good for them,they must be smart,have ambition, drive etc!

Or.

Do you think...god could they not make their mind up and/or stick to something??

Nothing wrong with a love of knowledge.

It depends. If they insist on putting it all after their name on letters etc I think "twat!"
I work in education and it makes me cringe if HTs have their qualifications on the school signs- I just think 🤷🏼‍♀️

I think they must have had money to afford to do more than one degree!

^^ This

sorry not that post!

I have a PhD but it was a tough 4 years and couldn't go through it again!

If they lay them out to show off that's a bit silly. My father happened to do a physics degree (BSc) and then did medicine with al the qualifications that brings so had a lot. I just have one as I did law and all the post grad stuff doe snot give you any but that's irrelevant to me. Indeed there is a convention that barristers do not use their doctorate if they have one I think, probably along the grounds the British tend not to show off and they underplay what they have. That last point is a vague memory so may be wrong. A bit like surgeons not using doctor and just being Mr.

Has anyone read 'The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared'? This reminds me of Benny 😂

I’m pretty certain they don’t exist. I’ve tried education as an adult a couple of times and I find it really hard. I don’t know how anyone can fit it in as well as normal life (jobs, kids, pets, housework,sleep) I’d love to know their secret.

I'm just starting my second degree at 29. Never thought of it as wanky, did badly in my first degree due to poor health (ex poly 2:2, was expected a first) and I want my first as it really upset me not getting it. So it's for my mental health really!

I tend to think they wanted to delay joining the workforce and have the independence wealth to be able to do so.

It would not cross my mind that they are particularly intelligent or interesting. They could be of course, but having multiple degrees wouldn’t make me think they are.

Multiple degrees? I think they are lucky and minted 🤣🤣. I'm still thousands in debt from the first one. Got a 12 year career out of it and want to retrain in something similat which involves another degree but the cost now is phenomenal to the point Ive no chance.

How are the people who’ve never worked funding all these degrees?

@formerbabe

Delayed adolescence and a reluctance to grow up usually

This makes no sense to me at all. I have one undergraduate degree, a masters and some additional professional qualifications. I've been working full time since I was 21, bought a house at 23, and have done all the post grad stuff while also holding down a job.

In my field I work with a lot of people who have done additional degree/masters level qualifications while also working full time. It's pretty standard for my type of work, not unusual at all.

What part of that indicates a 'delayed adolescence'?

I have two degrees and a doctorate in a vaguely creative subject. I think my subject is such that it’s more instinctive then learned. As such, while I am smart, I wouldn’t think people would know to talk to me.

Ha. I wrote that wrong. I wouldn’t think they’d know I have a doctorate to talk to me.

It depends on the subject(s) and what else is going on with the individual. Highly educated does not automatically mean highly intelligent and the value of being highly educated varies depending on what the individual has studied. Getting a qualification in and of itself is not what counts, it's what you go on to do with the knowledge gained that matters. I know highly educated people who have gone on to build very impressive careers. I also know highly educated people who, in my opinion, were hiding from the real world as students and by and large they have gone on to achieve very little career-wise.

Most of my friends have at least a Masters. I have an undergrad and 2 Masters degrees. I think good on them.

I have a hobby degree. I did it while I took a career break when my second child was born. I did it only because I was interested in it. I was lucky to be able to afford both the money and the time, and I know it.

I’ve got 3, a bachelors, masters and a postgrad certificate (lost enthusiasm to go on for the full masters). Work sponsored me for the two postgraduate degrees and I wrote my masters dissertation whilst recovering from a hysterectomy. The postgraduate stuff is directly related to my job, I’ve been lucky to have the support.

Rather like means I'd think who 'bankrolled' that?

There was hardly any post-grad funding around in 2003 just a few ERSC places that were pretty much given to an Institution's 'chosen few' prior to going out for Applications.

Other than that I'd be interested in any further discussions about their multi-degree knowledge if they were really keen to tell me about their academic/research 'breakthroughs'.

If they were just bragging then I'd just want to know how they paid their fees and living expenses.

@formerbabe

Delayed adolescence and a reluctance to grow up usually

This.

How are the people who’ve never worked funding all these degrees?

First one was free - Scottish student at a Scottish university

Second one was fully funded by a scholarship

Third one I paid half out of savings from a job I worked in between 2&3 and got a student loan for the other half

Fourth was paid for by my employer

Doing multiple degrees doesn’t mean you’re not also working!

I think they must be very smart! But really, I don't think much about it. As long as they are happy and in some way contributing to society then its not really something that I'm overly interested in.

@lapitup

What do you think of a person when you hear they have a more than average amount of degrees/postgrads/masters etc and qualifications?

Do you think...good for them,they must be smart,have ambition, drive etc!

Or.

Do you think...god could they not make their mind up and/or stick to something??

In real life, I'd think "Crikey, they must be bright, however did they find the time to do all that studying", but on here... mostly I'd think people are talking bullshit.