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Do degrees help your career?

who do teach physics didn't do a Physics degree um but it is desirable and I think makes you get makes you more more desirable candidate but do you think it helps to have a degr...

Course: Big questions in societySection: Jobs, salaries and living costsSubtitles: en

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teachers

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who do teach physics didn't do a Physics

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degree um but it is desirable and I

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think makes you get makes you more more

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desirable candidate but do you think it

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helps to have a degree in general to no

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no I don't I don't think that's a

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requirement anymore there's so many jobs

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you can do now that that doesn't need

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further education because you can learn

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on the job there's Apprentice

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apprenticeships and um lots of other

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jobs where you can train and Tradesmen

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and all kinds of jobs where you can you

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don't need to um have a university

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education to do like entry level yeah

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positions yeah yeah yeah because going

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to University is super expensive so you

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need to really want to do that so um you

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can there's so many other jobs that you

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can do that that don't require that that

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high level of Education would you say

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that people need to have a degree

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nowadays you think I don't think so no

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you think entry level and apprenti ships

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are I think that's the way forward is

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learning on the learning actually on the

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job did you study to do this

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specifically or did you need a degree to

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do this no neither of us went to

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University do you have any advice in

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terms of how to get a job any tips or

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tricks just keep looking don't give up

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don't just look online and just think oh

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you know go in and

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