Does earning a master's degree lead one to no longer have to work with stupid people? If I will still have to work with stupid people, can I at least be the one giving the orders rather than receiving them? What has been your experience?
Does earning a master's degree lead one to no longer have to work with stupid people? If I will still have to work with stupid people, can I at least be the one giving the orders rather than receiving them? What has been your experience?
Anyone can get a master's degree
Well I am sure that people with masters have needed to work with you, so the answer is yes.
So naive to think the modern American college system has anything to do with intelligence.
Some of the stupidest people I have worked with have Phd's.
backseat driver wrote:
Does earning a master's degree lead one to no longer have to work with stupid people? If I will still have to work with stupid people, can I at least be the one giving the orders rather than receiving them? What has been your experience?
Nope to both, even if it's a good school. Not worth it.
If you don't want to work for/with stupid people than put all your effort into finding such a job. Grad school will guarantee nothing and won't magically push you in that direction.
backseat driver wrote:
If I get a master's degree, will that mean I won't have to work with stupid people any more?
There is no escaping it. You are condemned to work with yourself for the rest of your career.
(MS recipient here)
Sadly, no. My degree got me a better job and exposure to some better minds, but I'm still exposed to the inane/dense/absurd/"What were you thinking, if at all?!" multiple times daily. And it's often from people who, seemingly, should know better.
You have to be alert for, and be lucky enough, to fall into the right work setting. Too high an expectation to think you can avoid most/all stupidity. At best, an advanced degree might improve your chances of being around smarter people. Stupidity is everywhere, at all levels of society.
To end on a heartening note-- "book-smartness" is often bound to common-sense and/or social stupidity.
backseat driver wrote:
Does earning a master's degree lead one to no longer have to work with stupid people? If I will still have to work with stupid people, can I at least be the one giving the orders rather than receiving them? What has been your experience?
The majority of teachers end up with an MS at some point. They work with a bunch of idiots every day.
You'll likely be working with other people who have Masters degrees. You can still feel superior to them and label them as "stupid" if you want, but not because you have a degree and they don't.
I'd recommend getting a Masters degree but keeping the same job. That way you can keep thinking of yourself as superior and use the degree as justification. It's scary and humbling to have a challenging job, but if you can convince yourself you're overqualified for what you're doing, it's easier to maintain smugness.
Please, unless it's an MBA from a top ten school (which is good, but still a bulls**t degree) or something like a Master's Nurse Practitioner that requires real skills, you're wasting your time.
Some of the biggest idiots I've interviewed have Master's degrees, I believe solely because they felt they needed the diploma to compensate for their stupidity.
Master's degrees aren't special anymore. It's basically what used to be a bachelor's. Even for STEM teachers in public schools master's degrees are now becoming more common and expected.
Chain Gang wrote:Please, unless it's an MBA from a top ten school
This is actually nepotism in disguise. A ranked school means very little unless you "know somebody" and it turns out most of the people in a top-10 school know quite a few somebodies.
Sure, there are some charity cases in these schools used to keep the poor folks believing there's social mobility. But, mostly, they hire their own and don't fire them.
My experience is yes. The higher degrees the less uneducated people, you'll be around. Pursue a PhD if possible. This will guarantee you a non-idiot working environment (if you pick engineering or something similar. not a PhD in gender studies).
depends on your field but a masters can be a waste. Im a software developer and I got my job over a guy with a masters because I had a portfolio of projects to show and he had a piece of paper that said masters. I dont even have a bachelors of comp sci either, just a general science. For many fields your credentials don't matter nearly as much as the work you are capable of