I’ve got an LRAM 
I have an ‘A’ level in biology which helps my driving no end 
muckles:
OssieD:
I have a BSc does that count?..That’s a 10yd Breast Stroke certificate…Ossie
Ah! breast stroke, the reason I’m no longer allowed in our local swimming pool.
I used to get chewed out along with my mates for bobbing around face down with arms and legs splayed pretending to be an “unconscious floater” 
muckles:
I think their is a difference between being clever and having qualifications, I know some really clever people who left school without a single qualifications and some with loads of qualifications that you think shouldn’t be let out on their own.
+1
I met a man in his fifties, dyslexic, couldn’t read or write but runs a business and employs 5 people. Clever and considerate, he was!
Then there’s skilful. If you have a talent for something and you develop that talent, would you class that as clever?
S’pose we’d have to define “clever”.
Taking theory exams to gain qualifications, is more a measure of memory than knowledge, and of putting the subject to practice.
I can remember to this day theories in things like physics I learned at school parrot fashion to pass exams, and I did pass.
However my actual knowledge of same situation in practice is zero.
In other words I blagged it.
Suedehead:
What ever happened to the 3 degrees?
Despite expectations no one saw them again
I have my 50 metre swimming certificate.
I tend to find people are either academically intelligent or are common sense intelligent, rarely have I come across someone who is both but more often than not I’ve encountered many that are neither!
don’t know if any other driver remembers but there was a general knowledge show on TV about 5/6 years ago one of the shows featured solicitors vs hgv drivers,i thought our guys would lose hands down,could not believe it when the hgv drivers beat the solicitors to win,was not by a small margin either,they won on a lot more points than these well educated solicitors,unbelievable
robroy:
Taking theory exams to gain qualifications, is more a measure of memory than knowledge, and of putting the subject to practice.I can remember to this day theories in things like physics I learned at school parrot fashion to pass exams, and I did pass.
However my actual knowledge of same situation in practice is zero.
In other words I blagged it.
Was using an abacus classed as physics back then? You live and learn
I have my DCPC. I add it after my name. It appeared on the seating card at a recent wedding
Sir Dr J T Cat DCPC
Qualifications only prove you’re potentially capable of doing something. Some of the cleverest people I know have very few qualifications but are outstanding in their trades.
Guy Martin doesn’t have a motorbike licence but he’s pretty handy on two wheels.
That said, there is a bloke who sub contracts at our place. Owner driver. He used to be a Chief Superintendent in the police and was a Regimental Sergeant Major before that. Only in his early 40s now and a very very switched on bloke. Clearly he excels at whatever he turns his hand to.
The most intelligent and switched on bloke I have ever met was a neighbour of my parents when I was growing up in the 80’s/90’s.
Not as in “e=mc2” clever but was just knowledgeable and gave brilliant advice.
He was an ex miner who went down the pits straight from school and started his own business when they shut Littleton colliery. No qualifications at all.
The stupidest and within his and my particular career at the time, most dangerous person I ever came across had straight A GCSE and A level results and the degree in some media related subject.
He had zero, literally zero common sense, no life experience (and we were both early 20’s) and no ability to speak or deal with people. He was christened Captain Chaos.
Oh and he was on the graduate fast track promotion scheme!
A driver I knew for Stan Robinsons in Stafford had a degree in American Political History and had at one point been employed in a government department regarding foreign policy. Bit “hippyish” and one day just thought - screw this and gave up the lot - job, marriage etc and moved back to Stafford.
I was a successful manager in retail. Used to pick and choose which shops I wanted to run. Bit of a troubleshooter, even though I was in my 20’s, I was earning incredible amounts of money for sorting dumps out. Then the hierarchy changed, the old school that had been running the company retired and they replaced them with clueless folk from all over the place. They’d come in, on a 2 year contract, have a load of daft ideas (usually the remnants of a restructuring exercise at another retailer) and then all of a sudden we’d end up with new managers being set on (what a coincidence that they would have been managers killed off by restructures at other retailers) what they didn’t figure, is that when retailers perform a cull on their managers, they didn’t get rid of the good ones.
Company turned into a farce.
So I left and joined Safeway. Brilliant company to work for. No crazy hours, not spoken to like an imbecile. Then what did they do? Set on a chief exec from Walmart, Argie, mad as a bloody hatter, he was adding top shelves about 10ft tall and employing circus stilt walkers to hand customers products. Retailtainment he called it. Had folk hand tossing pizzas whilst being most annoying through a headset attached to a PA.
Then Morrisons bought us out. I got a cushy number running a training team for 2 years, whilst the stores got converted. Then I got put into a Morrisons store.
12 weeks of that and my notice went in. What an absolute shower to work for. I actually deliver to that store from time to time, and it’s still crap.
But it was Morrisons that put me off retail for life. Find it ace that I get paid to sit in their depots doing bugger all. Christ, if I went to the bog, my walkie talkie would go crazy because I wasn’t on the shop floor.
Retail is full of some very good managers, but they’re all the ones that started on the shop floor, not bloody graduates.
In my Safeway days, I used to get a graduate to shadow me for a few months at a time, because our store had such a great operation. Ended up refusing to do it in the end, when one let it slip what they were being paid.
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yourhavingalarf:
I have my 50 metre swimming certificate.
ive got mine sewn onto my speedos…impresses the ladies no end…
BSc (Hons) here.
My greatest academic achievement was holding my ciggy cupped in my hand up my jumper sleeve without a) burning my hand, b) burning a hole in my jumper and c) not getting busted by the teacher walking past at the time ( which was the whole point of the exercise)
BA (Hons) (QTS)
Plenty of clever truckers about; but show me a WISE trucker. Any one with an ounce of wisdom is not driving a lorry.
I’m clever enough to know I’m not very clever. I wish more of us were.
walked into our office one day and the girl said to me hey ho what do you know,i replied not much that’s why I am a lorry driver,gave her a laugh