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What was your major or degree?

Various college courses......no degree

LMET (Leadership-management-Education-Training)
ACC211 (Principles of Accounting) Tidewater Community College Was a great course in regards to compartmenting my properties, small business, and personal finances.
ELE131 (National Electrical Code I)
ELE127 (Residential Wiring) Both electrical courses really saved me from hack electrical jobs, and short cuts being taken by shady technicians.

A ton of Naval Technical schools Most are worth college credits

Engineman/A school Introduction to diesels and related auxiliary equipment
Detroit Diesel V-12 maintenance and repair.
General Motors 268/248 Propulsion Diesel maintenance and repair.
General Motors EMD 567 & 645 Propulsion Diesel maintenance and repair.
Fairbanks Morse Opposed Piston 38D 8 1/8 maintenance, overhaul, and repair.
Fuel Oil & Lube Oil management
Navy Metrology and Calibration (METCAL) I was the gage repair guy on two ships.
Grove Mobile Crane operator.
ALCO 251C Propulsion Diesels & Kamewa Controllable Pitch Propulsion System (LST ships)
Quality Assurance Inspector(QAI) (auxiliary machinery and engine repair)
Woodward Governor maintenance and overhaul
Material Handling & Shipboard Crane Operator
Quite a few others that were 1 & 2 day schools.

The counselor at Tidewater Community College did a Joint services transcript/Transfer Credit revue and said that I more than enough credits for a Associates providing that I did the obligatory preliminary courses. I passed on it.
 
I majored in electrical engineering and dropped out after sophomore year intending to take what came to be known as a "Gap Year". The term was not used back then that I ever heard.

Anyway I got a job repairing audio equipment for Panasonic on the basis of what I taught myself in high school. Physics and calculus 101 were nearly useless. But working as a hi-fi tech was FUN, college was not.

I eventually switched from audio to computers and ended up with IBM. I took computer science courses at another college that IBM paid for. They reimburse 100% as long as you get a C or better. In some ways it would have been smart to get a degree but I do not care what European culture regards as a well rounded education.

If it is not math, science or technology I can pick up a book and read it. I was reading about Plato in 7th grade.
 
noonereal said:
Do you have a degree? If so, what is it?
If not, what is your training?

then, how do you identify politically?

I have a BS in Economics/Finance. I am a real Republican. (not a MAGA Republican)
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Old thread, but I'll play.

I have a BS in Computer Information Systems. I have an MBA, and an Sc.D. in Logistics.
 
I see an old thread from last year is getting new traction.

As for my degrees, I have degrees in sagacity, common sense, wit and humor. Also a major in Snowflakery.
 
noonereal said:
Do you have a degree? If so, what is it?
If not, what is your training?

then, how do you identify politically?

I have a BS in Economics/Finance. I am a real Republican. (not a MAGA Republican)
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Prove it. What have you done to put down the MAGAts?

Honestly, this thread looks like a phishing tool.
 
noonereal said:
then, how do you identify politically?

I have a BS in Economics/Finance. I am a real Republican. (not a MAGA Republican)
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I don't identify politically. Most people are into Group Think.

I took 2 economics courses in college though I was majoring in electrical engineering. If I remember correctly I got B's in both of them but I actually felt more confused after I took econ 101 than before. It was Samuelson's Economics, I don't recall which edition, above 6 I am fairly sure.

Anyway the instructor jumped to various chapters, we could not have done the whole book in a semester. But I didn't feel that I had accomplished much. Years later I encountered and read The Screwing of the Average Man by David Hapgood. That book made so much sense I decided that there was something wrong with what I was taught about economics. I intended to figure out what it was if I had to read Samuelson's Economics cover to cover. I still had the book.

So I read 15 or 20 pages each evening after I came home from work. Eventually I got to NNP, Net National Product. They used GNP in those days. I do not think NNP was ever mentioned when I took the course. Actually I read it and kept going since it was such a simple equation. I was about 5 pages beyond it when the depreciation of durable consumer goods occurred to me.

At the time I was still repairing audio equipment though not for Panasonic. Most consumers hardly know squat about it. So they either buy cheap junk, some brand name that somebody told them was good or an expensive status symbol if they made high class money. Spending $3000 for a pair of speakers was impressive then.

But what happened to the depreciation of durable consumer goods like cars and refrigerators since WWII? How many American households didn't have refrigerators before WWII? Did John Maynard Keynes ever see a television commercial for automobiles?

The Laws of Physics cannot tell the difference between capital goods and durable consumer goods. What do Republicans and Democrats matter to physics? Economists can't do algebra and we have had 75 years of this crap.
 
Kelby said:
Now that's interesting.

Opposite sides of the spectrum.
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The above posting by @Kelby was written in response to the one below by dmpi.
@dmpi had said:

" BS in Mathematics with a minor in Philosophy. "

I don't find these fields at opposite sides of the spectrum, although neither one interests me very much. When I took Symbolic Logic in college, which was all done with symbols, not words, it counted as a class in the Philosophy Department. Having taken Symbolic Logic helped me fulfill my Humanities requirement for my undergraduate degree. Having that mathematical-type course be counted as a class in the Humanities has always seemed bizarre to me. But mathematics; logic; and philosophy appear to be intertwined.
 
I admit that I sometimes read that someone has a BS in a subject that they claim to have been educated in, but their posts belie that education, and I think, "Well, someone certainly has BS in that subject."
 
noonereal said:
Do you have a degree? If so, what is it?
If not, what is your training?

then, how do you identify politically?

I have a BS in Economics/Finance. I am a real Republican. (not a MAGA Republican)
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Who do you support for President in 2024?
 
BS Computer Science
Half of an MS in Computer Science (stopped due to raising a young family)

Libertarian (but not the MAGA/Tea Party perversion type)
 
Two undergrads, one in honors international relations, the other was honors biology with a minor in biochemistry. I also have a masters degree in biology.
 
I happen to have a JD (Juris Doctor) but I certainly know a lot of online "law-yars" who peddle their BS here. Anyone with an actual education in law recognizes them pretty quickly. ;)
 
Major: ENGLISH
Minor: HISTORY

I originally thought I wanted to be on the radio but quickly learned how badly one starves in that kind of work.
When I changed to go into TV, the best piece of advice I ever got was to NOT pursue "TV-radio-film" curriculae because not only does the tech change too quickly but, you'll also learn "What buttons to push" in about twenty minutes but your BACKGROUND is what will get you far in creative work.
If you speak and write like a ten year old, it's going to have a negative reflection on your work product.

"Young & Restless" director Ivan Cury was teaching a UCLA Extension course "Directing for Television" so I picked up on that and quickly discovered that I could have been teaching the course, by Cury's own admission. He hooked me up with a PBS job on "Window on Wall Street".

I'm a Democrat, been one since my first vote in 1976.
 
BA Early Childhood Education
Master's K-12 Reading Education
Reading Specialist Endorsement
 
NewfieMom said:
The above posting by @Kelby was written in response to the one below by dmpi.
@dmpi had said:

" BS in Mathematics with a minor in Philosophy. "

I don't find these fields at opposite sides of the spectrum, although neither one interests me very much. When I took Symbolic Logic in college, which was all done with symbols, not words, it counted as a class in the Philosophy Department. Having taken Symbolic Logic helped me fulfill my Humanities requirement for my undergraduate degree. Having that mathematical-type course be counted as a class in the Humanities has always seemed bizarre to me. But mathematics; logic; and philosophy appear to be intertwined.
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Yes, very true. I have been fascinated by the philosophy of mathematics, especially the work of mathematician philosophers like Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and Kurt Godell.

As Plato said at the top of his Academy "Let no one ignorant of mathematics enter here".
 
Business and economics.
Democrat.
Ive been neglecting that a lot lately and its been exhausting.
 
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