Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Retirement

[Fellippe Galletta (fellippe.galletta]

Pursuing an MS or PhD is generally not a good "business" decision from a dollars and cents point of view long term unless your industry actively rewards it. Most PhDs strive to remain in academia anyways.  To my knowledge, many industries do not reward the higher knowledge past the bachelor's level to the extent that you get your money back. 

In consulting engineering for instance, being a licensed Electrical Engineer is way more valuable than having an MS or PhD in EE. If you design computer hardware or electronics, then the opposite would be true....and it's very difficult to find work with only a bachelors let alone high paying work. 

Of course if you go in with the mindset of doing it for yourself, your own education, then it's all good and cannot hurt. I know a few MS/PhD PEs....pretty cool combo. 

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 6:40 PM, LarryT <L02turner [at] comcast.net> wrote:

That poster is excellent.  while every parent dreams of the time their child will graduate from college, not all are meant to.   Like someone said, we'll always need plumbers.    That's why some plumbers make more $$'s  than those with a MS or Phd!  (especially when their degree is in something like "Home Creation of Organic Salves and Ointments", (that cracks me up)    As Clint Eastwood said famously, "a man's got to know his limitations!"

It wouldn't be PC, of course, but that poster should be on the walls of all the Student Advisor's in the High Schools across the country. 

LarryT

On 11/2/2014 8:34 PM, Charles Perry wrote:

Always loved this poster...



-----Original Message-----
From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+charles=carolina-sound.com [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Erik Nielsen
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 10:53 AM
To: Charles Perry
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Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Retirement

I recall my thermodynamics professor going off on his "the world still needs ditch diggers" rant after lambasting some poor sap that shouldn't have made it as far as that class with his limited mathematical skills.  Carlin was right, think how dumb the average American is, now realize half are dumber than that. 

But in a service based economy, it's all right pocket/left pocket transactions, is it not?  

Some days I wish I didn't get a PhD in engineering, an MBA, went to law school and was just an ignorant gravel kicker with no knowledge of how messed up the system has become, based on "good intentions", but beset with perverse incentives...

Hang on, I need to go yell at some kids to get off my lawn.

Erik

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