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Pete Naples
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1565
From: Dunfermline, Scotland
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 05-24-2002 10:02 AM
Yup, I too took an 'Arts' course, ok it was photography, film and television, but nevertheless it's BA, not BEng, I wish I'd gone with my head and not my heart, and done BEng. I've gotten on ok in life, but it hasn't always been easy, I'm an awful lot more of an engineer than I am an artist! That said, any further education qualification proves to a prospective employer that you are capable of making a comittment and are capable of learning. I've had to learn rather more in this job than I would have, had I studied for a BEng, but I've got there in the end.
One other thing, it doesn't matter what degree you do or don't have, you learn something new every day. Stop learning and you stop living.
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Barry Floyd
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Posts: 1079
From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 05-24-2002 11:17 AM
Ken,
Go all the way and get your Bachelors degree!! I have an Associates degree in Engineering Tecnology in Architecture, and the frame that it's hanging in is probably worth more than the degree itself. What did I do with my associates degree.... let's see. Graduated in June of 1988 - and got a job at "Hooter's" - flipping chicken wings. Moved up from there to be a GM at a Dairy Queen. Finally landed a "real job" at an Architectural firm in Nashville - making a whopping $5.35 an hour - then they went bankrupt a year later. (Must have been my salary that pushed them over the edge)  I finally ended up at the engineering firm I currently work at, but with no BS degree, I started off at $8.00 an hour. 12 years later - I make good money, but being a husband and a father I don't have the time or money to go back to school to get the real degree to make more money than I do. (That's where the drive-in comes into play.) Dumbest thing I ever did was to settle for an Associates degree instead of pursuing my real dream of Architecture. To make matters worse, I still have my letter of acceptance to the school of Architecture at Auburn University. At the time I was 20 years old, had car payments, the susposed "girl of my dreams", and I too was fed up with school.
Get the Bachelors degree, you'll never regret it! ------------------
Barry Floyd
Floyd Entertainment Group
Nashville, Tennessee
(Drive-In Theatre - Start-Up)
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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man
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From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 05-24-2002 12:11 PM
Ken, just "do it!" You are not going to make a living competing with non-college graduates squishing hamburger pattys at McDonalds. In the analog days where I came from, it was possible to make a comfortable living in many professions without a college degree. This is not true today. To be honest about this, I don't think the average young person of today stands a snowball's chance in hell obtaining a good paying job in today's job market that has a practically unlimited wage ceiling without possessing a college degree of some sort.
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