Fixed that for you. :)

Obvious troll is obvious. The system is self-balancing, not self-driving. There are boats out there that are self-righting so you never have to worry about capsizing, but you can still drive them straight into the rocks and die.

BTW to add total irony, another one of Jimi Heselden's companies is the largest UK supplier of traffic barriers. Ahh the irony...

He must have been playing Paranoia the night before.

"You play a troubleshooter. You go out, find trouble, and shoot it."

...and you walked uphill to school against the wind both ways in -100 degree weather with snow past your neck?

You obviously didn't read the parent posts. UoP classes run such that each class runs for 5 weeks and covers an entire semester of material. You're not supposed to, or possibly even allowed, to take more than one class at a time. Or to say it differently, a single class at a time is considered a full time load. 9 papers over a semester isn't that bad, same with the reading load. However, condense that into 5 weeks and it quickly becomes insane.

Please read the posts before responding. I was taking one class at a time through UoP. The 12+ credits stated was for traditional brick & mortar university.

I find most people overestimate what they actually know. I've more than once met a C, SQL, Java, Visual Basic, etc... "expert" who knew very little about the language they claimed to know so well.

Tell me about it. We just got rid of a Linux "expert" who turned out to only know Ubuntu. We use SuSE enterprise and he could not understand at all why we didn't install apt-get as part of our standard install set. You should've seen his face when we explained to him that there IS no apt-get for SuSE and he'll have to go search for his own packages. Was priceless!

You mean like... Everywhere just about? People are always indulging in drama and politics everywhere I've been ESPECIALLY those who claim to not like it. It's generally used as their excuse to run away when the going gets tough.

Generally I agree, but I have no patience for it. When the drama/politics start up, I'll usually leave the room and just go do what needs to be done anyway. As I said in another post, life is too short and I have too much to get done to sit around and listen to that crap. In the end it's easier to ask forgiveness (especially for getting something done the right way) than it is to ask permission.

To my knowledge, pedagogy is not just about one size fits all but rather about, "we do it this way because that's the way it's always been done and it's the right way". May sound like splitting hairs, but IMHO it's a big difference.

It's very typical. They replace actual instruction with huge reading and paper loads to hide the fact that the courses are pretty much completely empty of any real value.

Working is much better. I'm not some snowflake dipshit who cries to mommy when I don't get a trophy for showing up. I work an average of 50+ hours a week at an extremely demanding job and enjoy it immensely. At times I've held truly shiatty jobs that sucked the life out of me but needed the money to eat/pay rent/etc. Right now I'm dealing with the transition from two incomes and one house to one income and two houses due to having to move to find work, wife can't find a job in new town, and old house won't sell. Life sucks, but you deal with it and move on.

THANK YOU for some fucking validation!

To mangle a Monty Python quote, "I'm 32, I'm not old". Everyone on my team is actually within 2 years of each other for what it's worth. Also when I conduct interviews I'm MUCH more concerned about what you know, what you can do, and how well you learn and think than what kind of piece of paper you have.

Yes, I have little patience for bureaucracy, always have and always will, but I've by and large learned to deal with it or side-step it as the situation calls for. What I have ZERO patience for is pedagogy and jumping through arbitrary hoops that have no relation to the task at hand but are there to waste your time or prove that you have the patience to jump through hoops. I have too much shit to get done and life is too short to waste time on that.

Please understand the subject you're talking about before discussing it as almost all of your information is incorrect.

At U of Phoenix, there is no difference between full and part time. You take only one class at a time and each class lasts for 5 only weeks total. That's right, that whole load was ONLY ONE CLASS AT A TIME. Additionally, I WAS unemployed at the time and was still barely able to keep up. I was mentioning the full time employment bit in response to their (omnipresent) advertising that repeatedly describes how you can complete a degree and work full time.

Second, I was in their IT program, not an arts program. That did include some management classes on the course list, however the classes I took were more oriented to networking and such.

Third, US colleges are the same way. Note I stated 12 CREDITS, not 12 classes. Each class is a higher or lower number of credits depending on its course load and difficulty.

I would hazard to guess that it's pretty much impossible to go to traditional brick & mortar school "full time" (12 credits/semester I believe) and hold down a full time 40 hr job, family or no family.

Besides, "real" schools don't tell you that you can easily go there full time and hold a full time job. In fact, usually you're advised to seek out financial aid and student loans specifically because you need to concentrate on studying and work as little as possible. Granted that's in an ideal world, but as with most things in life you start with idealism and step backwards until you find reality.

...and then suddenly you're paid too much for your grade, you're bumped to a higher GS grade, and suddenly you're too high of a grade for your job. So you're shuffled to a job that's completely outside of your field but is for the right grade.

Seen it done in person, never works well at all and is usually a complete disaster. That being said, you're also set for life as it almost literally takes an act of congress to get you fired.

I did U of Phoenix for 4 classes (see full rant above) and everything in that report is 100% true. They lie like a rug to get you in the door then charge you exorbitant amounts for sub-standard ridiculously paced classes that are next to worthless.