Dear Mr Opinion,

I've made the right choices in my studies.
My qualifications have been balanced - studying
for the love of it, in humanities, to practical
hands-on qualifications that kept/keeps, me
employed. I've never been out of a job. And have
had a successful career. It was Thanks to my father's
advice that I made these choices. He insisted that
I study whatever I wanted but that I should also back
it up with employable skills and experience.

I should also add that I'm still learning to this day.
Education does not stop at getting your degree. It
lasts a lifetime.

Mr O an indication of the less than usefulness of many academics.

I learned all my practical engineering from an amateur. He was an accountant by day, & a brilliant motor racing engineer by night.

We built the most successful racing Australia ever saw. It was a Formula 2 engine, competing against the best from the top engines from the UK builders.

In the 20 months I raced it, it not only finished every race it started, but won either it's class, or outright in every one of them. In both years it raced at Bathurst it finished third outright in the main formula 1 race.

During this time I ran into my favourite professor from my last year of engineering. He seemed to be the most switched on. I excitedly started telling him about our engine, & it's success, what & how we had done it.

After a couple of minutes he cut me off, telling me that my ideas would never work, & would be detrimental. I don't know quite what he missed when I had told him this was our results, not hopes or dreams. This brought home to me how these people live in their own little make believe world, where they believe they are the font of all wisdom.

This was reinforced when "scientists" discovered what lowly educated professional reef fisherman had known for decades, that corals release their spore over just 2 nights each year.

I won't bother with more examples, but when you see them regularly promoting what you know is utter garbage, it gets harder every year to take any of them seriously.

Dear Hasbeen,

You sound like an angry man. I suppose, like me, you are upset about having wasted your time doing an engineering degree. Don't worry most engineers find themselves in that position. Do you find yourself telling people the you're like a doctor. That's a fairly common behaviour among a lot of engineers. When I hear them saying that I remind them that they are just engineers.

50 years ago in Europe a Tradesman knew more than an Engineer here nowadays. Some will insist there is progress.

At least I have not wasted my time studying pretend disciplines like Sociology, with the make believe fairies.

Dear Hasbeen,

Seems like you suffer from a dose of sour grapes. You can't be a sociologist yourself so you resent it so much that you resort to telling yourself that you don't want to be one anyway.

Actually I don't think you could handle being a sociologist. I don't think you would be able to complete any of the humanities, be it sociology, anthropology, history, archaeology, etc. You would probably be able to get into the degree program but you definitely wouldn't be able to complete it. You just don't have what it takes. Same goes for your know-all-know-nothing wannabe mates individual, ttbe, Loudmouth, mhaze, etc.