Dak
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There's education and there's Education. I suspect you conflate the two. You need more of both.
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There's education and there's Education. I suspect you conflate the two. You need more of both.
Just did one of those farts where you start of thinking 'yeah, this is pretty cool' then come to realise that it was basically a war crime.
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Serjeant Grumbles
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Dak
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I mean you need a lot of learning, and only a fraction is going to come in the pursuit of necessary credentials.
CiG
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Everything is a right these days.
@RedStorm You keep calling our society capitalist and I agree that in part it is, but education isn't a requirement for getting ahead in a capitalist society as you seem to think.
There are a lot of well educated bums, lay abouts and useless sponge fucks out there. Probably because they thought a degree would be all they needed to get ahead. In contrast there are a lot of poorly educated people that found success.
@RedStorm You keep calling our society capitalist and I agree that in part it is, but education isn't a requirement for getting ahead in a capitalist society as you seem to think.
There are a lot of well educated bums, lay abouts and useless sponge fucks out there. Probably because they thought a degree would be all they needed to get ahead. In contrast there are a lot of poorly educated people that found success.
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rms
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Capitalism is literally a free market economic system that is heavily dependent on technological advancement to promote further profit. However you want to define what 'being educated' means, capitalism thrives on the smart making things better for the wealthy.
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Which requires one to get a degree that isn't a useless piece of toilet paper. It's not a requirement to have a great education, it's a few extra bullets in your six shooter if you choose the right shit.
You're hardly a contender with a degree in psychology for example.
You're hardly a contender with a degree in psychology for example.
Laying in bed. Had an amusing night.
So earlier in the evening, after getting home from work, I spot my shithead neighbor in the apartment hallway; when I am attempting to unlock my apartment door to get in, he starts giving me shit for banging on the wall through the night, the night previous.
"My expensive flatscreen TV is on that wall, so if you guys bang on the walls again... I'm gonna call the cops. My TV isn't even that loud" he says.
I told him in the most condescending tone possible, that actually, it is loud; and that unlike his jobless ass, who sleeps every day and Skypes and blares music every night, I actually have to get sleep for work through the nights. So if he values the good condition of his flatscreen, keep it the fuck down.
He then angrily began a sentence, walking up towards my apartment door. He got the words "Yeah, well--" out of his mouth when I basically slammed my door in his face.
I then spent the remainder of the night laughing like a motherfucker about it. He's strangely quiet tonight; no music or Skype calls.
Victory.
So earlier in the evening, after getting home from work, I spot my shithead neighbor in the apartment hallway; when I am attempting to unlock my apartment door to get in, he starts giving me shit for banging on the wall through the night, the night previous.
"My expensive flatscreen TV is on that wall, so if you guys bang on the walls again... I'm gonna call the cops. My TV isn't even that loud" he says.
I told him in the most condescending tone possible, that actually, it is loud; and that unlike his jobless ass, who sleeps every day and Skypes and blares music every night, I actually have to get sleep for work through the nights. So if he values the good condition of his flatscreen, keep it the fuck down.
He then angrily began a sentence, walking up towards my apartment door. He got the words "Yeah, well--" out of his mouth when I basically slammed my door in his face.
I then spent the remainder of the night laughing like a motherfucker about it. He's strangely quiet tonight; no music or Skype calls.
Victory.
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RedStorm
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Where do you live?
Also I suppose a degree is psychology is useful if you want to be a psycologist
CiG
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And being a psychologist is a pretty shit way to make money, that was my point. I live inside Mother Theresa's asshole.
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I see nothing wrong with making money by doing something you like. I define success by as getting a job doing what you want in the field you either studied or trained in. But like you mentioned before, the education/degree part of it is only as good as how you use it.
That said, I have experience working with people who are mentally ill, and quite honestly it is the last thing in life that I would want to do. It's one of those things that kind of fascinated me as a kid, but when it comes down to it a clinical psychologist is just someone who has to listen to people who have fucked up lives. Being on the research end would be marginally better, but life in research isnt exactly a picnic.
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Dak
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Psychology is such a varied field, some areas are more lucrative than others. But you have to have a PhD to really even begin to get into those areas. Of course you could go to school for an additional 4-5 years and start making that psychiatry bank.
CiG
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Yeah none of those fuckheads did that. They pretty much all work as cleaners on mining camps because it pays way more than anything they could manage with their weak ass degrees.
