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muckles:
you end up getting a sort of desire to avoid some of the idiots you end up working with in offices factory’s. at least in a truck you can get away from them.Unless you have to double man
Yep! you’ve spotted the flaw in my cunning plan. 
I Left School in Feb 1976 at 15 1\2 yr old and school board man kept knocking on door at home 
He Finally accepted I had no intention of going back but agreed to leave me alone as I was working, and on the condition I returned to school for the final exams.
I returned as promised / agreed in the May 1976 I went back for exams or should I say exam and sat Enviromental Studies getting a C grade
Within years I was at nightclasses at Gateshead College studying for my RSA CPC National and passed first time, I then took on a home study Course for my CPC International passing that second time around.
In 1995 I decided to sit my NVQ in Computer Information Technology and gained my NVQ 1, 2 & 3 in CIT
My old Headmaster always said I would get nowhere in life and I must admit that when I bumped into him 2 years ago, In Newcastle City Centre, I took him for a meal and we discussed things that had happened over the years since leaving school in 1976 and it really touched me when he apologised and gave me a pat on the back 
His parting words were that I was a credit to the school and sadly he passed away earlier this year but I did attend his funeral, and must admit my opinion of him had changed for the better after that encounter in Newcastle.
But one thing I have always stated is,
It does not matter how badly you do at school, its what you succeed at afterwards that counts in life, I left with one poxy C grade in a subject that was neither use nor ornament, but it has not stopped me from proving valuable to others, in life.
I’ve got an HNC in Business and Finance
A PDA in Business and Finance
and still need a calculator to help me do my end of day tacho
Well I’ve got a Bachelor of Education Degree in Business Studies - but 30% percent seems a high figure to me - I was a teacher for 14 years, and if I say so myself I was pretty good at my job, but put too much into it, burned out, and now I enjoy my life on the road, the boss doesn’t phone me up, the customers tip me when I turn up and most nights I can be found gardening, walking or down the pub.
I think the government has to ask themselves why so many people who have received an expensive education from the state don’t want to use their qualifications.
What a lot of people don’t understand though is that a degree is just a bit of paper that says you are good at passing exams or doing research, it doesn’t mean that the holder is more intelligent than anyone else - I’ve worked with people who are far more intelligent than me and who have taught me a lot.
davecsm:
What a lot of people don’t understand though is that a degree is just a bit of paper that says you are good at passing exams or doing research, it doesn’t mean that the holder is more intelligent than anyone else
So very true.
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maybe not not i still drive 
I just remembered I have got a qualification, CPC, passed 1989!
I went to the university of life & got my degree.
I’m usually at a 180 degree angle
Yes, I have one. I do not need to use it now . All it got me was close to the looney bin. Fortunately found by current partner and dragged back to sanity. Now do not get wound up; it is far better to shrug and say ‘fair enough mate’ to the obnoxious tossers who only have you to pick on. It winds them up, that they have no effect on you.
I have met many from different occupations now wanderring our roads in the company of a lorry; we are all completely unstressed. There are ex headmasters, teachers, chemists, a few from computing (like me) . Just talk to each other; no one else thinks you are human.
mrpj:
davecsm:
What a lot of people don’t understand though is that a degree is just a bit of paper that says you are good at passing exams or doing research, it doesn’t mean that the holder is more intelligent than anyone elseSo very true.
I’ve met a lot of people who were highly qualified but no sense at all!
One inparticular had straight A’s at GCSE and straight A’s at A-level, but had absolutly no common sense! Educated Idiot springs to mind!
I studied mammary glands for most of my life but never got a grade
got a CPC national
got a CPC international
got an ADR
got various levels in business studies, with certificates
got a class 1 licence
got a marriage licence (on the 3rd one)
The only person i know who drove trucks and had a degree was Andrew Wilson Young (god rest)
I am currently saving for my Class 2, working as a van driver and studying for a BSc in enviromental studies. 
At school, I was told that 5 GCSE’s at grade C and the world was your oyster (I was the 3rd year ever to do GCSE when it changed from O levels.
Lying ■■■■■■■■■■■
Was not allowed to do A levels cos my Englesh GCSE was not high enough (grade D)
Took a 1 year course called CPVE (certificate of pre vocational education)
This was obsolete before I even finished the course.
tried a business studies course, until I was expelled.
None of it has been any use to me in life, the most valuable qualification I achieved was my driving licence to which I added PCV, LGV2 & LGV!
Stuart
davecsm:
a degree is just a bit of paper that says you are good at passing exams or doing research, it doesn’t mean that the holder is more intelligent than anyone else
Have to say, you’ve hit the nail on the head for me there
Yes, I’ve got one - I was told I should, so that I would have “something to fall back on” - still falling, and I haven’t hit it yet