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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
if you want to be a PROFESSIONAL, you have to go to university of some kind.
if you want to be a doctor, an architect, a surgeon, an astronaut, a professor, an accountant, hell, most anything that is not a trade, you HAVE to go to college.
if you want to be a tradesman, a plumber, a mechanic, a carpenter, etc, you still have to go to trade school for a few years!
school is where it's at, and it is what you make of it.
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So what about people who learn as they practice their chosen/forced upon profession? Say, you start working as a painter and decorator, and progressively you are sent to training courses to aquire new skills, all while you have also started earning an income as a trainee.
All the theory that you learn comes to nothing unless you have a daily mean to put it into practice, which very much happens to a lot of people who have studied a specific thing and end up doing something different from their initial aspirations.