Do you need a degree to get on?

studentphil

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?

doitmyself

What do you think?

iwanttosave_2

No you dont.

Next thread please.

gillette147

Some women will let you get "on" with only A Levels.

A_Singleton.

Ask nelly.

chatta

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 Luckily for me I am older and get by on my experience

gillette147

chatta wrote: »

I think the answers here somewhere Luckily for me I am older and get by on my experience

And I can vouch for her experience

studentphil

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.

Quasar

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:

A_Singleton.

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

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?