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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
It seems to me like our society is trending towards everyone having some sort of post secondary education. I've noticed that post secondary is the new high school diploma, and designations and MBAs are the new university degrees. Kids coming out of high school are facing more and more competition from every direction. It really is important to equip yourself the best you can with all the tools to be successful, and I think education is one of the most important tools you can give yourself.
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This is very true. As someone said above, a university degree just teaches you how to learn, that you know what a job is and can do it. As one of my (engineering) professors said, the goal of your degree is to pick up any scientific textbook - related to your field or not - and understand it. Or you can pick up any tutorial and learn it yourself how to program, use the instrumentation, etc.
Even a masters degree is becoming too common, a masters degree is to undergrad degree - it means you got a small introduction to one specialization, spent a few months looking into a particular field and now you are working. My graduate degree is kind of related to what I do now, but there's still a universe I don't know even with a masters degree. Continuing that thought, a PhD is the new masters degree (at least in my field) and its not till you have a few patents and papers that you start to be something special.
Until then, you can come from some of the best schools in the world, and still not stick out or be special... unless you really are special.