JustTheFacts
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I've read several posts here, just like I have at other sites that indicate people rely on the letters after a person's name to determine if they are worthy of consideration. Education and degrees are important aspects of growth, but a reliance on them for proof of a person's ability and intellect are misguided. Please consider the following that I posted on another forum:
Hi Gary, let me tell you two true stories. First, as a newly hired auditor/assessor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I had to interact with, interrogate, and observe numerous PhD's and other elitists with advance degrees to tell them what they were doing wrong and what they were doing right---with a focus on safety and national security. I can recall a few of those elitists who were temporarily assigned to be my boss to see which one of these two with long-term service to the Feds, would be my official boss. During the one performance review I had with them, they told me if I wanted to get far at LANL, I needed to get advanced degrees like they had. I told them, "So I can be like you? I don't want to be like you and I've done fine in my career with trying not to be one of those who think they know it all because they have some letters after their name. Thanks but no thanks." Then I walked out. One failed miserably as a manager and the other recommended me for two management jobs. I went on to successfully lead LANL's investigation group, and turned down other promotion opportunities.
Then there was the time I moved to Los Angeles and was searching for a martial arts school to join. I finally went into a school in Inglewood, CA and the owner introduced himself and informed me that "the belts come off in here." In other words, it doesn't matter what rank you are or who you trained with--what matters is what you know. It was a great school and I trained with them for a few years. Some of the greatest fighters in the west coast came out of that school.
In summary, if you think a degree and some letters after a name somehow defines the abilities or accomplishments of a person, you are a fool.
Hi Gary, let me tell you two true stories. First, as a newly hired auditor/assessor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I had to interact with, interrogate, and observe numerous PhD's and other elitists with advance degrees to tell them what they were doing wrong and what they were doing right---with a focus on safety and national security. I can recall a few of those elitists who were temporarily assigned to be my boss to see which one of these two with long-term service to the Feds, would be my official boss. During the one performance review I had with them, they told me if I wanted to get far at LANL, I needed to get advanced degrees like they had. I told them, "So I can be like you? I don't want to be like you and I've done fine in my career with trying not to be one of those who think they know it all because they have some letters after their name. Thanks but no thanks." Then I walked out. One failed miserably as a manager and the other recommended me for two management jobs. I went on to successfully lead LANL's investigation group, and turned down other promotion opportunities.
Then there was the time I moved to Los Angeles and was searching for a martial arts school to join. I finally went into a school in Inglewood, CA and the owner introduced himself and informed me that "the belts come off in here." In other words, it doesn't matter what rank you are or who you trained with--what matters is what you know. It was a great school and I trained with them for a few years. Some of the greatest fighters in the west coast came out of that school.
In summary, if you think a degree and some letters after a name somehow defines the abilities or accomplishments of a person, you are a fool.
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