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F.O.A.D.

On 3/20/13 10:01 AM, wrote:
On 20 Mar 2013 13:34:06 GMT, F.O.A.D. wrote:

wrote:
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:05:25 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 3/19/13 12:00 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:14:06 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

I'm pretty sure you cannot "end up being a professor" in the traditional
sense of that word without a Ph.D. A Master's degree, while a
significant achievement, is not the academic qualifier required for
being a professor.

I bet that is true.
They buy what they sell.

Just love the disdain shown here so often for academic achievement.

Sometimes it is justified.
The local college was looking for someone to manage the dorm expansion
project. They rejected my wife and another experienced construction
manager in favor of a guy with a masters degree in construction
management (and zero experience). Now the project is running almost a
year behind schedule and the cost overruns are piling up.

They hired what they sold, not what they needed.

That could have happened for reasons that have nothing to do with the
construction manager.

That is why you hire a construction manager, to be sure those things
don't happen.

That's silly and you know it. All sorts of unexpected **** can happen on
commercial construction sites, and many times for inexplicable
challenges that are not easily resolved by a CM or anyone else.