You are more elite and clever from university degree? YES/NO/Maybe...
 

Ok often in business it is important to impress other with education level.

Some people feel it is not important and hate people who get educated.

Of course not everyone has same options because of finance or intelect.

I have study to get better position in life and also to show other ones who are not so clever as me I am level over them. It is important tool in society.

Have anyone here also study at university? How do you apply these degree to your career you have now?

Study is not so hard see!
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yes of course not maybe.

put comma whereever u like.

so that mean yes

never heard of that school, congrats on being retarded.

It helped me a lot, food for brain kind of stuff.
But others can do it without school :)

eh that makes you retarded:)

true, not so many though...

Ignorance has always bugged the shit out of me...

College allowed me to do whatever I wanted to try.

Not because they taught me everything,
but because I learned how to learn.

Learn how to learn and to hell with people who don't understand that value.


College does not guarantee wealth. NO WAY!!!
But it does guarantee that you know how to start a program and stick to it
until you complete it.

In fact, if a person only wants to be rich, then why even fuck around with college??!!

Just go for rich; be 50 Cent, Eminem, Tyson, Sheen, etc....

Why waste time trying to be Albert Einstein, or Martin Luther King, or
Barack Obama, or Sigmund Freud, or...............


OH WAIT!



Disclaimer : Before anyone gives me shit about listing Obama : It doesn't matter if
you think he is shit; it only matters that he beat your ass out for the job. Period.




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My perspective comes from living in Europe and the USA.
I managed to get a PHD, MA and a BFA while in London. Collage life was amazing with huge amounts of pussy and no need for condoms ( swinging 60s).

In the UK degrees are important but not more than experience, which counts for a lot

Coming to the USA, specifically San Diego i found people to be in fear or intimidated by my qualifications with more than a few companies saying i was over qualified even for a CEO positions. In the end i removed my degrees from my resume and got way more success? :helpme

I have a bachelors in Computer Science, from a PAC-10 University. While it pre-dates the existence of the WWW by over a decade I still find the skills learned to be very useful in this biz.

One morning during my Masters degree in Computer Science I created a Geocities website, I didn't have a clue what I was doing. I did it as a form of procrastination; there was some important assignment I was trying to avoid. I believe this was an important event that helped take me to where I am now

I didn't go to lectures (slept in late), so generally had to teach myself stuff, learning to teach myself has proved useful as the majority of webmasters need to teach themselves

All the coding experience certainly gave me confidence to start out as a webmaster

all of the above depending on how you use it

I don't have a degree mostly by choice. I spend a great deal of my free time researching things either related to what I do, or just stuff I'm interested in generally(philosophy, science stuff.. specifically biology.. religions.. history..) and thus can't justify spending 20k/yr doing it when buying $500 worth of books each year + paying my internet bill is cheaper and I'm still learning a lot. With that said, a lot of the most successful people I know either dropped out of college or just have a diploma... and some of the biggest piles of scum just have a diploma. It's an individual thing. Either you've got the drive and ambition to succeed or you don't. A degree isn't going to change that.


However, at some point in the next 4-5 years, I plan to get a masters in philosophy from a decent school, as I feel it'd give me a lot better critical thinking skills. I come from a family of entrepeneurs/small business owners and was always curious/around as a kid, so don't feel I need to get a degree in business or something similar.

I dropped out of university with 30 credits (1 year) to go to work in porn. After coming close to hitting rock bottom, 14 years later I decided to go back. I had to take 3 semesters with a full load of 6 classes (18 credits total) to finish in a timely fashion. These aren't bullshit courses either, lots of 300 and 400 level classes and 100's of pages of papers I've had to write. I will finish with a bachelors in Political Science (with honors) this May. So yeah, it does put me a couple notches above others. Whether or not this degree with help me is besides the point; its the fact I was able to do it. However, my real world experience combined with a degree will put me above someone who is applying for the same position if I choose to go that route.

University did make me a more intelligent man.
Not so much of the things I learned from books but the way it changed my methods of thinking and learning.

"I have to study so I can learn things a lot of people already know so I can get a job where I cant use the things I learned."

Yes and no. It really depends on the person. If you have an authentic desire to learn, then you will regardless of whether or not you go to school. Getting a degree does open a lot of doors for you, but that doesn't make it a requirement to become successful. If you don't go because you simply don't want to put forth the effort or aren't smart enough...well... good luck becoming successful. The most successful people I know juggled businesses or similar activities while going to college and a lot of them dropped out to pursue their ambitions because school was too easy. Personally, I took hard classes, but they weren't that hard for me. I hated English but loved conceptual math and still do.

I'd like to learn more about data analysis. Does anyone know of any great books on the subject?