(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Well today is the day many of you including myself get our GCSE results. I am slowly shitting myself as I type this. I get them in about 30 minutes, depending on how long the post man will be so I will update this with my results if it's good news. No update means I've obviously done bad.

Good luck everyone and I hope you get the results you're looking for :y:

----EDIT----

I GOT THEM ****ING ALL!!!!!

A - Technology
A - ICT
B - Music
B - Maths
C - English lit
C - English Language
C - Science
C - Science [part 2]
C - Religion

Meh really I got

A* Photography
iGCSE A Business Studies
iGCSE B Biology
iGCSE B Chemistry
iGCSE B Physics
English B
English Lit B
Maths B
History B

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He really isn't crazy. It is who you know. Not what you know.

Well, i could work for my dad for 60k a year, or i could be a police officer, and get $39k a year (pounds, my pound sign is broke -.-)

Well you just proved my point

The problem with that is if you have someone who has a degree or something along the lines of that, no experience, and no common sense, and then a person with tons of experience, know-how, and common sense, but no degree, the person with the degree is going to get picked simply because of the degree.

Academics really don't matter, especially when it keeps you from getting a job with a concept that you're well-educated on.

Experience comes before academics, but not in business as it should, unfortunately.

mhmmm . kay:

Since this is not in debates, all I'm going to say is...

Academia > Experience.
:lol:

So knowing where Germany is on a map, or what the square root of nine is is more important than knowing how to do your job (specifically a career that you're going to be doing for the rest of your life)?

Makes perfect sense, because I totally can see how knowing both of those things that can be found on Google with a simple type/click movement can better me for my job more than actually knowing how to do my job.

:rolleyes:

Do you have some sort of advanced education or something? Because the only reason anyone would groan a post as innocent as mine is if they were butthurt. :lol:

Good luck Google'ing your whole life. :lol: And, in all fairness yes. Not one person will start a job without 'training' in that specific job. Regardless of experience. However, we do seem to CLEARLY be talking about different 'types' of jobs... Yet still, employers do seek more qualified workers, over more experienced workers, (as you have stated in your post). The thing I cannot get my head around is how you think that experience is more important than education/ higher education... Employers will always look at qualifications, before experience, and without GOOD qualifications, one will find it more difficult to find said experience. amirite?
(Sorry if it doesn't make sense... You had me lost for words :lol;.)

P.S. Are you dumb... Because only someone whom is butthurt would groan such a truthful post as mine...

Good luck Google'ing your whole life.

You obviously didn't understand that. I was making a comparison between knowledge on an academic level, and knowledge on an experiential level. Geography, beyond common sense, will never help me with my pursuits as, say, a mathematician.

The thing I cannot get my head around is how you think that experience is more important than education/ higher education...

Never said it was more important in general, I said it was more important in business. I'd rather have someone who knows what they're doing and isn't that great at algebra than someone who went to school for something, but still struggles with it, that's great at algebra. It's common sense that you want things to get done, and not someone doing math in the corner. (Because, honestly, aside from basic math like multiplication, we don't use what we've learned in high school or college about variables formulas) It happens a lot, and I know people who it has happened to.

Employers will always look at qualifications, before experience, and without GOOD qualifications, one will find it more difficult to find said experience. amirite?

Since when is experience, which is knowledge and skill about/with something, not a GOOD qualification? A person who has been doing something for years and correctly should obviously be considered first over someone who's been doing it for 2 months, and is still in the process of learning how to do it.

P.S. Are you dumb... Because only someone whom is butthurt would groan such a truthful post as mine...

It's hardly truthful, because someone obviously as intelligent as yourself seems to have dropped the concept of opinion.

From what I've seen in your posts, your probably going to college soon, so of course you don't want to see someone take you less seriously than someone who actually knows what they're doing, I can understand that. Honestly, what does one opinion matter?

I know TONS of people who are great at their jobs, a lot better than any of their college-graduate employees, and some haven't even graduated high school.

Ultimately this whole problem has no solution, as I'm sure we could both rattle off comparisons and rebuttles, but in the end nothing would be proven, because you can't falsify either stance.