who someone is ( or thinks they are ) makes no difference to the truth - and personally i don't trust anyone who flaunts "professional" qualifications and makes them think they are a someone - there are MANY clever and educated people out there who never went to uni and don't have a qualification to their name - but they have experience of life - counts for a lot in my book
couple of examples from my days in the fire service - some Muppet came up with the idea of "graduate entry " officers some years ago , the plan was shelved owing to the ground swell of hostility to a plainly daft idea by the guys on the sharp end or as one succinctly put it " we ain't having no F****** snot nose kids with a degree telling us who have to do this s*** how to do it !! " and most of us who had been in the job for some time agreed - in fact we considered the whole plan a sure way to get guys killed !! - well the force of feeling soon put a stop to the idea and its not been mooted since as far as i know
and as any of you who are "practical " people will ( or should ) know - having a degree or PhD is no sure sign of practical ability - i had a guy on my station , more letters after his name than i had hot dinners - good at "theory" - but totally crap at anything practical , and conversely , guys who could "read ,write and drive tractors" bloody brilliant , could strip a fire pump down at the side of the road with a pair of mole-grips and get it working - i sure as heck know WHO I would want covering my back in a crisis
and there are many classic examples of incompetence by supposedly "edumacated " people throughout history - - take the officers of the first world war - the ruling class - went to oxford y know - got a whole load of people killed through inflexible thinking !!
and the one thing i REALLY hate is when some non entity asks you " DO YOU know who I am ?? " - my usual reply is don't know , don't care and you must be very insecure to even be asking that question " - and believe me i have hacked off quite a few supposedly important people in my time
- oh they don't like it if people don't fawn all over them or kowtow to their supposed importance
at the end of the day - you can be as full of "piss and importance" as you like , but if you are no good in a practical situation , then you become part of the problem - not part of the solution - if push comes to shove ever - it wont be the phDs that save the world - it will be the "little" people - the uneducated erks who will do that - mark my words
so to quote a great line from a film when all the experts rolled up with a plan that was way too complex fro a simple problem " why don't you people just stick to what you are good at ?? - taking something simple and complicating it !!""
truly as someone observed "education , is wasted on the young "
and i always say - they always promote people to the maximum level of incompetence - that's why all the really clever people are on the shop floor
supposed position or qualifications mean little peeps - never be impressed by tittles - go on results !!