[Mcauser]

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[theo_luddite]

Do you get PhD's for this stuff these days?

I retire in 2 years, maybe I should apply if I can get someone to pay my tuition fees whilst I try to live off my pension before the energy companies take it all off me.

There's me thinking a lifetime of knowledge of friction, wear and lubrication was important in my career but apparently it's sports fan rivalries.

Oh! Hang on a minute. Sports fans, some tiresome posts on other teams forums and alcohol - no it all fits.

[Devongone]

A PhD has to be in something in which you are so interested that the sheer boredom of all the referencing and cross-referencing doesn't wear you down and destroy something you used to love. I enjoyed completing my thesis for my Masters but putting a memory stick into my computer and printing off the appendices etc on an office printer for a PhD student and imagining the sheer tedium of creating all that academic waste of space killed my interest in ever returning to study at a higher level. It's not the study, it's the grind. Data tires you out. At 70 I am now too old for data and am permanently excused from it on medical and psychological grounds.

Theo, you could find something engaging to study at Huddersfield University to a level which stretched you enjoyably short of breaking point. Nice retirement project and you could save on energy when out at the uni'!

The question isn't whether you are intelligent enough to do a PhD, it's whether you are intelligent enough NOT TO. And as regards the above, always remember Social Science is an oxymoron.

[theo_luddite]

I'd have to move back "Oop Nooerth" to study at what was Huddersfield Poly the last time I was in its Engineering block Devon.

Now I know I can sell up down here and get something similar sized up there for a fair few quid less (or something bigger for the same price) but there's no way on earth I'm pouring that kind of spare brass into a Uni for a few years when I could spend it more usefully in warmer parts of the world for a few weeks each year. I've done my years at College as a kid and spent the rest of my time in the University of Life, solving problems and moving industries I've worked with forward into more profitable businesses with improved products and processes. Don't have a "paper" with my name on it anywhere, but generally I've got the job done faster and better than most that have dozens with their names on them.

[Lord Snooty]

There's loads of "well educated" people running the country.

Thick as pig shit!