POLL: Your education history

Current status?

  • Lower than secondary education degree

    Votes: 5 5.6%

  • Secondary education degree (highschool, gymnasium or equivalent)

    Votes: 19 21.3%

  • Third education degree (college, university or equivalent)

    Votes: 63 70.8%

  • Other or "I don't want to answer the question"

    Votes: 2 2.2%
  • Total voters
    89
Finishing up my mechanical engineering degree next month. I'll be moving down to Texas (not to far from JBroll in fact) to start working. I've been to Texas once...for two days...I don't know anyone there and am moving there alone. Starting to bother me a bit - but it should be a fun adventure.
 
I DIDNT GO TO COLLEGE CHECK ME OUT IM KICKASS!!!-jack black

but seriously audio engineering techniques and technology from SSR in manchester.
 
JBroll said:
Where, specifically? (If it's Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, or Arlington you will regret being born.)

Jeff
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Trust me - I'm going to regret it. The bustling metropolis that is Alice, TX. Don't know if you've even heard of it. From San Antonio its a shot down 37 then 59.
 
JBroll said:
Do not settle for a job! Education is not a rubber-stamp with a price tag - it is what determines whether or not you can consider yourself a thinking being! The marketroids may have hundreds of millions of Americans fooled, but does that mean you should join them? No! You have... graduate school! You have freedom from bosses, and strategy meetings, and teamwork-building! Death to jobs!

Jeff
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Yep, couldn't be more true! Unless you have a very specific and lucrative Bachelor's degree, and are happy with the job and compensation that comes with it, then continuing education is pretty essential....In my opinion at least.

My sister, for example, is a registered nurse. Her job will ALWAYS be in demand and has a pretty great salary attached to it.

I majored in history (big mistake, but whatever...no use in stressing over it now), because I enjoyed studying it but didn't want to become a teacher. I suppose it wasn't a total mistake.

Law has interested me for a while, so I decided to start studying my ass off, kill the LSAT, and be a lawyer (wish me luck!)

I'm considering copyright law, but it's still too early to tell. Definitely NOT going into criminal law. They make zero money and have to put up with so much shit it's unbelievable.

-Joe
 
Ermz said:
Bachelor of Audio Engineering from JMC Academy, Melbourne.

Biggest waste of my life apart from the entirety of high school.
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I feel yah man.

I'm at an earlier stage of this.

And yes, I have to agree, total fucking crap, high school was shit, so is getting a qualification in audio engineering. I'm fed up collecting meaningless bits of paper.

The course I'm on is steeped in management bullshit and mostly various other crap I could do at home, I don't need to know how to "network" to be an audio engineer ffs, I've been networking my whole life.

That and the studios have three grand Quested monitors, ten to thirty grand desks, amazing pre's and Protools HD with digidesign 96's, sounds awesome right?

But they don't have any fucking decent amps! So with all this amazing gear, the source product - the most important bit from an engineers perspective imho - isn't there, whats the point of mixing on amazing monitors when you're listening to the guitar tone from a fucking 15 watt solid state Orange Crush, or when you're listening to a drum kit thats not had the skins changed in the last 3 years.

That and the people on the course I have to mix with, god dammit, no I don't want to run one whole side of guitar through an effectron and have the other side clean, no I don't want the biggest cave in the world reverb on the snare because you are obsessed with the 80's sound and want it in a jazz song, no I don't want to mix with the guy that can't listen to a song for longer than twenty seconds and who insists on treating other people to music by cranking his headphones up in the studio while we're trying to mix.

That and the lecturers idea of mastering seems to be topping and tailing the signal then slapping a few mids on in there.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.

/Rant
 
jeff brings up an interesting point... i went to the ivy league, got my degree and have been moving along nicely in my career (business/marketing). however, i owe my first two male children and my eldest cat's first litter in student loans. my older brother on the other hand went straight into the military after HS and will be retiring in a year at 38, full pension and security clearances out the arse, which in this climate is worth a shitload. you tell me who the smart one was :erk:
 
not one qualification to my name, left school at 15 and didn't look back. I actually skipped my Chemistry exam to go buy Accept Restless and Wild in clear vinyl, which I still have.
 
jrt12 said:
jeff brings up an interesting point... i went to the ivy league, got my degree and have been moving along nicely in my career (business/marketing). however, i owe my first two male children and my eldest cat's first litter in student loans. my older brother on the other hand went straight into the military after HS and will be retiring in a year at 38, full pension and security clearances out the arse, which in this climate is worth a shitload. you tell me who the smart one was :erk:
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his decision wouldn't look so smart if he would've come home one day in a)a bodybag, or b)missing a couple limbs
 
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