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[chaitanya]

The Indian system of going into a college or university is just to clear an objective paper. The more you score, the better college you get. They don't look at your high school grades or your achievements. Just score in that single particular exam and if you have prepared well enough (and you are lucky enough otherwise) you get a good college. I hate this.

[asianmattdog]

Tbh, I would too. I hate school systems that put too much emphasis on a single test, or essay. Like for example, in South Korea, its a literal fricken national holiday. That's putting way too much emphasis on a singular test, a singular day, to determine one's personal future? Their socio-economic class for life? Whether they collect garbage or become an engineer? No, i'm sorry, but that's not doing it right. To put all your eggs in one basket on a singular day puts little to no reason behind any other day you showed up to school then in my honest opinion.

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Edit: Forgot to mention, unfortunately for the American school system, that's what we're slowly integrating into our mentalities.

[Carde]

Here it is mostly you need to have had certain type of education direction and degrees beforehand and after that it is pick what you want, but popular studies have a lottery system so if more people apply than there are spots it is sorted partly by grades and partly by pure luck iirc.

Anyhow I tried twice and well yeah neither time worked out for me. I am ample smart, but I just prefer to learn by doing and not by diving into books and I am bloody good at it. Really if I put my mind to it I can learn most things and do it, most of the stuff I do I never got any training for, I just figure it out and look up what I need to look up. Simply example they bring in a combination microwave/oven unit, customer brought it, did not work, guy from the supplier went by the house to check to see if it could be fixed, said it could not be fixed. I look at a co-worker and ask him, "Who do you think is smarter that guy or me?" and he is like "That guy he learned to work on these things."

5 Minutes I have a fully operational unit, saved us about 350 eur in cost (700 new price).

I never learned anything or got any training. I just look at it, apply what I do know, use common sense and figure it out. Same way I build from the ground up the entire reporting and administration system for the product quality job I am doing which I since been sharing to quite some other stores. To this day the official system we get from the global head office does not even come close in functionality, but they know what they are doing, because they learned for it.


Uch sorry for that rant, I want a good schooling system, but also people to understand that the way they work is not for everyone.

[Unknown98]

Yeah I know a lot of people like that. Having a degree doesn't automatically qualify someone to do something. I've learned so much more by experience than I have from books and exams.

Course my problem is now that I have a degree, it seems I am either under-qualified or over-qualified. Not enough experience to get the jobs I want and too much experience to get something entry-level. Frustrating.

[asianmattdog]

Typical. Especially in America, the market's so saturated with people having degrees, you almost need one in order to get a foot in the door. Nevertheless, the numerous amounts of other people who happen to have one too, all trying to get their feet inside the same door. Oddly enough, there's still a lot of jobs in the market where what you know is more valuable than some autographed paper. IE: Computer science, mechanics, construction, etc.

[Unknown98]

Even more so than what you know, it's who you know. I've seen so many dumbasses get hired just because somebody they know is a higher-up.

[Carde]

Politics in a nutshell.

Don't even get me started on that one to.

[asianmattdog]

Same... :S

[Carde]

A well happy thoughts anyone?

Maybe time for cute kitten pics?

[asianmattdog]

Kitteh? 


On a secondary note, the AMD Ryzen 5 Line comes out in 3 days, and so does my future pc... (:<