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Do you need a degree to get on?

studentphil
studentphil Posts: 37,640 Forumite
in Student MoneySaving
If you are a young person now entering employment nowadays, do you need a degree ( and maybe a Masters degree) to get on in your career considering that many professions and management jobs now require a degree?
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  • doitmyself
    doitmyself Posts: 1,042 Forumite
    What do you think?
  • iwanttosave_2
    iwanttosave_2 Posts: 34,292 Forumite
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    No you dont.

    Next thread please.
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  • gillette147
    gillette147 Posts: 13,296 Forumite
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    Some women will let you get "on" with only A Levels.
    Girls are gonna love the way I toss my hair. Boys are gonna hate the way I seem.

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  • A_Singleton.
    A_Singleton. Posts: 1,823 Forumite
    Ask nelly.
  • chatta
    chatta Posts: 3,392 Forumite
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    studentphil wrote: »
    If you are a young person now entering employment nowadays, do you need a degree ( and maybe a Masters degree) to get on in your career considering that many professions and management jobs now require a degree?

    I think the answers here somewhere :D Luckily for me I am older and get by on my experience ;)
  • gillette147
    gillette147 Posts: 13,296 Forumite
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    chatta wrote: »
    I think the answers here somewhere :D Luckily for me I am older and get by on my experience ;)

    And I can vouch for her experience ;)
    Girls are gonna love the way I toss my hair. Boys are gonna hate the way I seem.

    I would rather drown with you than watch the surf with someone else
  • studentphil
    studentphil Posts: 37,640 Forumite
    doitmyself wrote: »
    What do you think?

    I think a degree does make it easier in life to get promotions according to the data I have seen as to how much more quickly graduate get pay rises compared to non- graduates.

    However, a degree is poven not to increase your overall intelligence so from that point of view a degree is not worth much.
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  • Quasar
    Quasar Posts: 121,720 Forumite
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    No phil not necessarily. Plumbers and electricians earn a pile or money every day and they don't need a degree: just intelligence and the willingness to work.


    Phil, isn't this a re-hash of... well, of every thread you have started so far, only this time you don't beat around the bush so much? :rolleyes:
    Be careful who you open up to. Today it's ears, tomorrow it's mouth.
  • A_Singleton.
    A_Singleton. Posts: 1,823 Forumite
    studentphil wrote: »
    I think a degree does make it easier in life to get promotions according to the data I have seen as to how much more quickly graduate get pay rises compared to non- graduates.

    However, a degree is poven not to increase your overall intelligence so from that point of view a degree is not worth much.
    Well done my son, you have answered your own question.
  • studentphil
    studentphil Posts: 37,640 Forumite
    But how is your A level person going to get a Manager's job if you come up against a person with a nice polished MBA when your MBAer will know all the fancy management stuff and your A leveler won't?
    :beer:
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