I have a Masters degree from a major university. In the first week of classes, we had a meeting with the PhD level students. One was honest enough to tell us that after 2 years of study, we would not be qualified to do much of anything in the field. She said that the degree was the equivalent of an academic union card. It was required to get certain jobs in the field but all the real world education would be on-the-job once we got a job. The degree was just an introduction to the field and a method to limit the number of candidates for Masters level jobs. She was 100% correct.
She said that the degree was the equivalent of an academic union card.
Is that what you get at the end of union training?
The union doesn't train you but once you've work a specified number of hours as an apprentice and taken a license exam, you get to join the union. Some jobs require a union card to get hired.
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