Do you display your qualifications ?

blunomore said:
Maybe we have different ideas. Trust me, it is too much work considering other avenues that are open to us.



My husband is a partner in a law firm that does conveyancing and yes, it pays.
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The master at work :p
 
syntax said:
I also loathe anyone who fills their signature on emails with their qualifications. IT folk are notorious for this
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Only certain people get to do that without looking like douches.

Ninja'd said:
What's the deal with people who also show where they got the qualification from?
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Interesting question, it seems to be the norm though, I know in our yearbook (UP) that the list of lecturers all include where they obtained their qualification.
 
I don't see a problem with hanging your diplomas and degree certificates and such. I don't bother but I can understand why people do it.
 
Had my first degree framed by my wife as a gift and it was hung up in our study in our last home. Since the move its been behind a bookshelf. Too lazy to hang it. The second degree has not even been framed, its just in one of those cardboard tube thingies that they gave it to me in.
 
Guess it also depends on your family. I only have a B.Tech whereas my wife has a PhD, my sister has a masters in law and forestry and my brother is finishing up his PhD in mechanical engineering. None of them bother with putting up their degree so neither would I.
 
nah I keep it in a file in my cupboard. Don't see the point of framing it.
 
Ninja'd said:
What's the deal with people who also show where they got the qualification from?
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No clue, I've noticed that medical people do this quite often. Physio's and Dr's etc

KalMaverick said:
Only certain people get to do that without looking like douches.
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Very very few, I only put them in when its requested by sales or management to try impose some kind of importance or status to the email, and even then I feel like a moron
 
syntax said:
No clue, I've noticed that medical people do this quite often. Physio's and Dr's etc
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When writing out referral forms, progress notes for employers, and things like that, then I usually write down my qualification, university, and year I graduated. I think the adding the university part starts when you a student and write in a patient's folder, then you need to specify where you studying after you sign your notes.
 
blunomore said:
I have decent qualifications :)

I just do not see the purpose. I know I obtained them, so why should they be on the wall? To remind me? Then I might as well frame my ID book to remind me who I am :)

I think if there were more innovative ways of displaying it, more people would be interested. It mostly framed in a very conservative and traditional way.
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I agree. I have a university degree. I have only ever taken it out of the drawer 4 times. 3 job interviews and for my UK visa application.
 
Some of you are like my old roommate's grandmother (at university ... we were roommates for 2 years).

She raised my roommate because both his parents died when he was young. He studied B.Sc. (Maths & Applied Maths), B.Sc. Hounours (Maths) .... all they way up till Ph.D level at Oxford.

When he asked his grandmother once why she was so blasé about his well-achieved qualifications (she responded with ... "for what other reason were you there for other than to get a qualification"). The inherent gamble of pitting yourself against an institution (and indeed "life"), scrambling to achieve some kind of success didn't matter to her in the slightest.
 
Picard said:
scrambling to achieve some kind of success didn't matter to her in the slightest.
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There's a good chance that people with that kind of attitude are either not happy with their own qualifications or don't have any to begin with...
 
Picard said:
Honours in English Literature?
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Media; kinda gone off English. The syllabus at the various uni's is not really what I'm interested in.

The focus is so much on the usual suspects, Colonialism, Feminism, etc. which I have had enough of studying.
 
Pooky said:
Media; kinda gone off English. The syllabus at the various uni's is not really what I'm interested in.

The focus is so much on the usual suspects, Colonialism, Feminism, etc. which I have had enough of studying.
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In Afrikaans and Dutch Literature it was all about the genres. Wanted to vomited later on. Those lecturers are nuts. In the Afrikaans and English departments.

However, I will most likely be applying for English 2 at UNISA by the end of this week. I'm doing it to bolster my current Education qualification.
 
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