Triple Meejah Studies and jobless

[bobspud]

I don't have a chip, I am equating your level of degree with the ones you mock. Manufacturing had little or no rigour, multiplying amounts in boxes with number of boxes has little real value and I imagine that is the same with media studies, both subjects should be done on the job, not in universities for student's vanity.

What? Seriously?

Manufacturing can encompass anything from assembly lines to carbon bonding racing car components. and everything in between. JLR are working on a way to increase manufacturing production that will improve their production rates from the current one car per 90 seconds. Figuring out that sort of problem takes more than excel skills. How do you keep a heart valve sterile throughout its production and maintain quality control?

I'd suggest its about as far from bums on seats process as you can get.

[sasguru]

Keep the most relevant stuff at the top.

If it's contract work in IT leave it off completely it's not going to help and like you say may hinder you

For permie roles list it, but list it last in your qualifications as you won't get any job without a degree. Any degree will meet the HR drones tick box

WTS. Experience more important than degree for contracting, but degree necessary for some permie roles.
I would have a separate section for the degree and stress you did it in your own time - as a one-time hirer I was always impressed with the gumption of those who nabbed a qualification in their spare time. Tells you a lot about a person IMO, all positive.

[amcdonald]

This leads nicely to my current dilemma.

Do I include my shiny new Humanities degree on my CV? Current draft I've listed it in 'Other interests' and stuck my Software Engineering HND at the top of the edukashun bit. Worried that listing it as 'education' would detract from what I do (and can) do, and instead I'll look like a new graduate in a non-relevant discipline.

If it's contract work in IT leave it off completely it's not going to help and like you say may hinder you

For permie roles list it, but list it last in your qualifications as you won't get any job without a degree. Any degree will meet the HR drones tick box

[Mich the Tester]

This leads nicely to my current dilemma.

Do I include my shiny new Humanities degree on my CV? Current draft I've listed it in 'Other interests' and stuck my Software Engineering HND at the top of the edukashun bit. Worried that listing it as 'education' would detract from what I do (and can) do, and instead I'll look like a new graduate in a non-relevant discipline.

Keep the most relevant stuff at the top.

[mudskipper]

This leads nicely to my current dilemma.

Do I include my shiny new Humanities degree on my CV? Current draft I've listed it in 'Other interests' and stuck my Software Engineering HND at the top of the edukashun bit. Worried that listing it as 'education' would detract from what I do (and can) do, and instead I'll look like a new graduate in a non-relevant discipline.

[Mich the Tester]

I don't have a chip, I am equating your level of degree with the ones you mock. Manufacturing had little or no rigour, multiplying amounts in boxes with number of boxes has little real value and I imagine that is the same with media studies, both subjects should be done on the job, not in universities for student's vanity.

Sure. If it makes you feel good.

[minestrone]

Says the man with a chip on his shoulder.

I don't have a chip, I am equating your level of degree with the ones you mock. Manufacturing had little or no rigour, multiplying amounts in boxes with number of boxes has little real value and I imagine that is the same with media studies, both subjects should be done on the job, not in universities for student's vanity.

[Mich the Tester]

Harsh but fair.

Maybe you could sell him a course in electric shock therapy?

[Mich the Tester]

Says the man with the bums on seats manufacturing degree.

Says the man with a chip on his shoulder.

[minestrone]

Says the man with the bums on seats manufacturing degree.

[amcdonald]

He could apply for a job at The Guardian, idiots with meeja degrees would fit in nicely

[Mich the Tester]

You were wrong and who's fault is that?
The world owes you nothing and even as a holder of three degrees you need to compete with everyone else and unfortunately for you, compete against people who have a clue.

OTOH, you could argue that like many young people with useless bla-bla degrees, he's been conned. But getting conned the same way three times in a row suggests he's not as bright as he thinks he is.

[Spacecadet]

"I thought I deserved better after so much effort in my academic life. Apparently I was wrong."

You were wrong and who's fault is that?
The world owes you nothing and even as a holder of three degrees you need to compete with everyone else and unfortunately for you, compete against people who have a clue.

[doodab]

We have a few spanish guys at work. They didn't do meeja studies though.

[Mich the Tester]

I see the phenomenon of the nonsense qualification has hit Spain too;

Spaniard becomes voice of country's 'lost generation' - Telegraph

Mr Serra, from Valencia, insisted that his work did not make him ashamed despite having a degree in Journalism and Advertising and another in Public Relations from the prestigious private CEU Cardenal Herrera University. He also has a Master's degree in Community Management

FFS, it's not because you're from a 'lost generation' although I understand that Spain's economy is a mess; it's because you spent umpteen years studying complete bollocks that nobody can use. Why are such courses even funded?