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Originally Posted by Bent Wookie
Wow. You are right. It sounds exactly like a private sector job in some firm downtown.
Although a degree is still valued with the CPS, they found those with degrees don't necessarily make good cops. So to equate education to salary, at least in the police world doesn't really make sense. The move is towards older applicants with plenty of life experience who can, or at least, have experience resolving conflict.
As you like to use anecdoctal stories, so do I. I know 2 guys that go to work downtown in some financial firm. One got there because his dad pulled some strings the other has a few years in some arts program in university and got there because he was recognized as having a knack for investments decisions. See what I did there?
You mention pensions. Do you have any idea what a cop pays into their pensions every month? More then some mortgages.
You don't seem to set on seeing the other side of the equation. Compensation is not solely based on education.
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I'd be putting a mortgage into my pension plan to if my employer matched it.
Daddy may have pulled some strings to get your buddy in the door, but if you don't produce you're on the chopping block downtown. You need to be able to ustify upward movement with a business case.
Your other story is a fabrication from your friend. No one with an arts degree is working with the brokers downtown unless they have another economics based degree to support. Furthermore, they would not be eligible to obtain the CFA or any other required designation as they would not be admitted into the program without the required education prerequisites.