not really a chip, more confusion. and the masters only took 1yr.Sounds to me like you have a chip on your shoulder that you spent all that time to get the Masters and were out of work for 8 months, despite your lofty credentials. .
agree with everything you said. know tons of people with fantastic jobs and nothing more than a high school diplomahad nothing more than an AS in electronics from a prestigious university (ITT Tech). Nothing I learned was applicable to software development. But I knew enough that I learned on my own to get in the door at Intel and blew up from there.
learned how to work the system. It does not mean they will be a good engineer.
Many fields would rather you NOT go to school. My resume gets interviews, my interview skills get me the job.
agree entirely... 99% of the people in my department are just as described by all you guys.The difference between those with just a BS and those with an MS/PhD is astonishingly apparent.
Now then. I have a rhetorical question for all of you.
I am 25 yrs old. I have a Phd in Material Engineering focus on mechanical behavior of titanium. I have a MS in Material Engineering focus on mechanical behavior of titanium with emphasis on FEA. I have a BS in Metallurgical Engineering with focus on ballistic performance of titanium/ceramic composites. I am NOT a typical PhD egghead. All my jobs have been decidedly blue collar/manual labor (ran a test cell at Caterpillar, stuff like that). And I have a real life outside of academia. example: I race Cat 2/1 DH and do all my own work on all my cars, stuff like that. I did the advanced degrees because schools offered to pay for them.
How do I get a job doing what I like (practical hands-on type stuff) and make a PhD salary at the same time when mmike just threw my resume in the recycle bin without even looking at it?