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Keyser Söze

On 10/17/15 12:15 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:10:28 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 10/16/15 11:58 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:44:08 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

According to you a degree is obsolete at time of receipt.

Not if it wasn't about anything useful or topical.

It's always fun to see the critical thinkers here espousing what they
think is "useful" or "topical."

Hey I was trying to throw you a bone. ;-)
Was your degree obsolete the day you got it?

Of course. I avoided trade school courses.

Yup useless information never goes out of style.

When you are dealing with useful education, you need continuing
education. I just finished my inspector hours the other day.

There's "the rub" again...your anti-intellectualism, of course.

I got my first newspaper job partly because I sat next to the Managing
Editor of a big-time newspaper at a party, and during the course of the
evening while we were drinking ourselves into semi-unconsciousness, we
discussed medieval and Elizabethan writers and historical characters and
modern Irish writers, all of which I studied intensely in college. That
was near the end of my junior year. The interactions of students and
professors in seminars was valuable to my studies, and provided insights
I would have not gotten by reading alone.

Before the party broke up, he asked if I wanted a summer job and told me
to be at his office the next morning if I did. Useful, non-trade-related
information got me in the door.

After I got my master's, I was offered a job at a major publishing house
as an editor of rather esoteric books. I didn't study the subjects at
hand, but I knew enough from the sort of master's level work I did to be
considered for that job. Useful, non-trade-related information strikes
again.