Pog, your scientific credentials are not in scope here. Your PC skills and your objectivity are.

In the old days, I hired a typist to produce my finished copy. I could just as well have hired an editor/spell-checker.

Oh, I’d be very interested. Especially in: are there any post-secondary education degrees out there where you don’t have to be able to write? Even for a B.S. or a B.A. you usually have to write a small thesis at the end. And I can’t really imagine Mr. oiaohm succeeding at that.

Kind of irrelevant and also irreverent. I doubt anyone would be convinced by any mere statement, so why ask?

I have been accused of knowing nothing despite being a published scientist (peer-reviewed) with all kinds of high tech experience. e.g. designing, modelling, building and installing high tech stuff since before PCs.

I think that adds up to “none”.

But I believe Tar’s question was:

I am curious oiaohm, what is your education?

To be fair, he has asked it twice.

Now, my limited understanding of this, Peter, is that you are roughly 36 years old, and your sole actual qualification (I don’t even know whether you graduated) is some sort of batchelor’s degree from the New England University in northern NSW.

Given your incessant bleats that you know everything about everything, I would suggest that Mr. Tar has a perfect right to ask what your qualifications are.

Were you on the chicken-strangling side of the curriculum, or did you specialise in fence-mending?

There might be an IT course buried somewhere down there in Armidale, but I’m buggered if I can find it.

In none the qualifications I use regularly use have I gone threw to have a PHD or masters in. Its not that I could not is more the time factor and my english written. The long papers PHD and masters stuff normally wants is not me. So lots of BA’s, diplomas, cert 4 and cert 3s on top of that a few trade qualification yes this does include trades that are not IT. All based on what the problem at hand required me to get.

Most of the time I only do the qualifications to the point of meeting the legal requirements todo the jobs. So I don’t study to just study. Its study to earn money.

Tar so my resume goes all over the shop. Completely does not follow the model of go into a field and be a specialist. My resume is also normal for a rural person. Being a specialist is not that useful rural since the staff to support you might not be there.

I would not say doing what I have done is easy by any scale. It would have been simpler to pick a single field and specialise. That would not got me working were I wanted to work. I grew up where I could be somewhere that I knew as far I could see there was not another human. Cities fell crowded to me. My qualifications section of my resume just the past 10 years is multi pages. About a new field to my resume that I have never had before every 2 years. With many others maintaining the fields I have.

Tar even for myself to know what I am currently qualified in at times is dig out my resume and see if I am due to to a update in it or not when it comes to doing something I am not doing regularly. So yes the true jack of all trades class of person. Also to be annoying my company job title is dynamic. Changes with the assignment when it changes so does my pay rates.

Now if I was working at a Uni or in a city I might have got to specialise but where I work does not suit that. Also where I work if I had done specialise for months at a time I would not be working and would be employed only casual.

I am replaceable normally by another rural. City people normally don’t have the board skill sets since they have been able to focus.

Yes my english suggests to a lot of people poor education but the reality is not the case. Some people are just not good at english yet they can be good at many other things.

I am curious oiaohm, what is your education?