Masters Degrees

[Fungus]

I've never seen anyone benefit from a Masters degree. It always makes me think of someone who just strung another year out of Uni because they couldn't be bothered to haul their lazy student arse out of bed and go and get a job.

I've seen people benefit, but they must be relevant e.g. an MSc in mobile telecoms including the 2G and 3G signalling architecture. It can be a good way to progress beyond code monkey to architect.

[lilelvis2000]

I thought the class system had been abolished...

Sorry, my mistake, that's in India.. england hasn't made it that far yet.

[el duder]

i beleive if you have 5/6yrs corporate experience or experience in your chosen field of study, then a masters would be benenficial.

[mlidl]

i beleive if you have 5/6yrs corporate experience or experience in your chosen field of study, then a masters would be benenficial.

so what field of study would you choose then, since most of your contracting life has been spent sat in the corner, looking busy

[Jabberwocky]

Most of the people on here are Master Debators - and many finished the course - making them complete Master Debators.

[foritisme]

I think a Masters Degree is very important, look at what it did for Brian May.

Though I think also having the PHd helped get in the band in the first place.

[ratewhore]

I did a 2 yr p/t Masters in Information Security. It was only 2 half days a week for 22 weeks over the year so not too much of a hit in terms of lost revenue.

What it has done though has improved my CV no end and led to better, higher paid contracts. I made the money back through increased fees many times over.

Although I can see a Masters in Reality TV might not have the same effect.

[Denny]

I have a master degree - a science one at that from a premier league university.

Benefits:

I can tell you ignorant twats how thick you all are with unshakeable confidence and utmost conviction. Well, let's face it, you are numbskulls, aren't you (see, no question mark!)

I am intellectual when I put on my glasses, I don't just look it. I can also boast about being a scientist too.

At a dinner party when I talk utter rubbish over too manny glasses of wine everyone is impressed with my brilliant mind whereas my uneducated counterparts could be teetotal, win Mastermind and be multi-millionaire business tycoons and no one really believes they're intellectually credible just loud mouth show offs out to impress.

You can put down your smug 1st degree only graduate friends by telling them that their time spent at uni was a waste of time because everyone has a first degree these days. Even better, if they got it from a polyversity.

I'm superior.

Disadvantages:

I don't fit it and don't get on with anyone.

[threaded]

I don't fit it and don't get on with anyone.

But it's not the masters degree that is the cause there, shirley?

[Fungus]

Making a guitar out of a bit of wood from a mantlepiece helped too...

Naah. It was the warbling fairy wot done it.