What is the highest level of education you have achieved?

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When I was 20, student loans were all co-signed by the government, but you could work part time and not use one. I had started gr. 9 at age 12, but lost interest when I got no points for having the only correct answer on the Christmas science test where I spotted a typo. I repeated gr. 11 to get back with my age group, but didn't return after failing gr. 12 the 1st time. Dad wanted me out, and my general knowledge level was over US College grad scores.
I taught myself art metalwork and earned a very thin living for a few years. I got further educated by working in house renovations, TV special effects, and factory set-up, etc. Then I went to the library for some specific engineering, instead of paying for courses that were half obsolete and mostly irrelevant. I took my notes in BASIC, and built a prize-winning velomobile. I was invited to lecture to graduating engineers, and got applause. A bit later, an employer was worried about my lack of papers, and sent me for a week-long course in aerospace composites. I had to pay attention for one afternoon, about paperwork. Now, I'm pretty sure I have some extremely rare wisdom, but don't know how to share it.
So, I don't know how to answer your question.

I had a friend who had a job as a psychologist in a very good hospital. He had interviewed well, having read plenty and pronouncing the buzzwords right. When he was leaving, with the understanding that he was the top candidate, he advised the recruiter to not check his credentials. It worked out fine, until he moved on for other reasons in six months. I also know a guy who spent his whole career as a civil engineer on a fake diploma. The county needed a certified engineer just to approve road cuts, and all the real ones were doing WW II, so he applied, and read what he needed.

The only counsellor who has really helped me is barely qualified. Because she is still allowed to say "I don't know" we are able to work together.

I have a high-skewl diploma. I struggled in skewl majorly due to dyslexia & other related learning disabilities so i had NO desire at all to go to college & I never regretted it. I only graduated high-skewl cuz some of my teachers curved my grades. I would of dropped out but my parents refused to let me. They insisted I needed a high-skewl diploma to have a better shot in the job market. I never been asked about high-skewl or seen it listed as a requirement for a job. I've seen spots for college thou. I'm in the same position for employment as something who doesn't even have a GED who is in similar life circumstances, issues, disabilities, & job experience.

Associates.

Because my household can't afford 2 college students at the same time, and there's no such thing as 'students loan'.
And I wouldn't want scholarships -- I'd grew up hating school subjects and learning if it's just all about maintaining grades and scores. I'd rather study for learning's sake than study for grades, even if it meant grades means free schooling.

Though I did also finished a vocational course, with scholarship. Otherwise my household couldn't afford it, and this one doesn't have any conditions regarding to my performance.


If I ever had the choice and means, I'd either take a masters for a career to entirely focus with, or several vocational courses of my choice for a hobby and become a freelancer. Or maybe both, spend most times at the former and the latter to fall back to.

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Bachelors.

Looking back I am very proud I was able to accomplish this with without knowing and thus with no accomadations or supports.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics with a Minor in German. I’ll eventually get my BEd (Bachelor of Education) which will be a 1-2 year program depending on where in Canada I choose to start my career as a teacher (probably Alberta, 2 years.) I don’t see myself getting a Master’s. Maybe an online one.

BA—Music
MS—Library Science

I’ve never been able to get an adequate ROI on this education, other than to be told I was a jackass for even making the attempt to better myself.

I recently gained a Masters in Archives which I've been doing part-time for the past four years. My Bachelors degree is in History.

Ph.D., 35 years ago. Took me 6 years. Much of what I worked with had to be kept under nitrogen or argon and COLD, and it was slow going.

Which reminds me: how many anthropology grad students does it take to change a lightbulb? Only one, but it takes the poor b@$+@rd ten years.

I should have took anthropology.....and double-majored with meteorology.

One time, a dad was wondering what the kids were doing away from home, so he asked a neighbour about his. "I don't rightly understand what these DEGREES they want are," he complained.
"Well," his friend replied "It's pretty simple. The first one they gets is called BS - now you're a farmer, so you know what that means. Now, the next one is the MS, and that stands for More of Same. Finally, if they really keep after it, the last one, the PhD, means Piled higher and Deeper."