People have to stop judging others and stop having a superior attitude towards others. Many academics are a bunch of snobs.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.My sister spent decades getting her PHD in school administration. She already had at least two or three Masters. She was teaching French at a university in Arizona, her first real teaching job with benefits after years of adjunct teaching in various colleges. I said she must be making big bucks with her new degree. I was floored when she told me she was making slightly less than I was as a city transit driver, and I had better benefits! And when her two year contract was up, they left her go! She never did find a job involving her doctorate and if finishing out her career teaching French to military personnel. A job she hates. I never missed not going to college.
Barnie2years
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May 14, 2021
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That sucks. I shouldn't have used the term academics. Walk a mile in someone's shoes. I'm glad you are gainfully employed, I'm sorry for your sister.
You are fortunate to live in an area where union wages are still available. I have 124 hours of college but no degree and I was fortunate to go to work for the government we're testing plus my college hours gave me opportunities to make a decent living.
Adjunct professors are treated literally as slaves in the university and college systems. They need a union.
You may not have any college but you are obviously self-educated. That often makes a person have a wider range of knowledge than the traditional educational systems provide.
Is an arts degree anything but a degree in snobbery ? Or is that just inverted snobbery ? Discus.
Fernapple
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May 14, 2021
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Nothing wrong with a degree. Quite the contrary. It doesn't make a person better than others.
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