4. What letters can you legally put after your name? discuss your education.
I finished High School in top 10% of the State.
Considering I was bouncing in nightclubs, illegals casinos and illegal brothels and driving around escorts when I wasn't playing football pretty much my entire senior year, I couldn't be unhappy with that. My mother was seriously ill in hospital most of that year, and with my old man working 90 hours a week and looking after my younger sister I pretty much got away with murder.
I was always one of those lucky bastards that just got shit, in an academic sense especially, so I pretty much cruised through High School on remote control. I was also an know-it-all. I am lucky enough to have one of those "steel-trap", memories AND an analytical mind with a penchant for relating to the big picture. A tremendous genetic or legacy advantage over most. One for which I am perpetually grateful.
These days they call kids like I was "ADHD" and fill them up with Ritalin to stifle their minds from working on a level higher than most people.
What a rip-off !! If I was born 25 years later I could have had free speed everyday for the rest of my life !!!
I just missed qualifying for Law at the end of High School, so I thought, "fuck it", I can always go to University later and I spent the next few years riding the slippery slope downhill and playing bad gams on the wrong side of the tracks.
Eventually I woke up to myself (to a degree) and started studying externally part-time, whilst working and doing anything else that came along.
To cut the rest of a long story short, I have...
A Bachelors Degree in Business, majoring in Marketing - BBus(Mar)
A Full Diploma of Market Research - DipBus(MarRes)
Certification in Instructional Skills - CertBus(InsSkl), which means I can teach at a tech college level
Certification as a Quality System Auditor - CertAud(Qual), so I can set up and certify system to international quality standards
But to me, in all seriousness, it all means shit. Really. All university proves is your ability to learn.
I subscribe to the theory of:
Those that can do, those that can't, teach, and those that can't teach write textbooks
