Why didn't you say so?

[u/TheNectarineDiaries]

Best medical advice I ever got was to bring a man to your appointments

[u/warrenao]

It wouldn't surprise me if something like this actually has happened.

[u/USBombs83 → u/warrenao]

I'm a white man and this never happens to me. In fact, I've had doctors ask ME to interpret test results for them. (VA Doctors, but still technically a doctor I guess...) I go to the doctor with my partner and this happens to her every single time. She has a doctorate and is a medical researcher. I went to motorcycle school.

[u/furiouspossum → u/USBombs83]

Motorcycle school sounds like something a 7 year old would have as a life goal. Please tell us more.

[u/USBombs83 → u/furiouspossum]

It was degree in "Marine Motorcycle and Power Equipment Repair" from a technical college. All my partner's friends have doctorates and stuff from all those Hogwarts type colleges so whenever I manage to say something smart I brag about going to "Motorcycle School".

Was a really great program. Was not a really great profession. (The power equipment is a much better path if you can work for a logging company or something, and if you can be "the guy" who works on rich kids' boats that's real good money too. Working at Harley Davidson is a joke.)

[u/Tnecniw → u/USBombs83]

Same with any game dev education, I can tell you that much.
No game dev studio gives a ahit that you have a degree in game dev.
They only care about portfolio.

Waste of time, I can tell you that much.
*sigh*
Should have gone for the software engineering off the ball.

[u/Greedy_Ad2198 → u/Tnecniw]

Yep, same with anything design, graphic design, product design, media design, they don't care for credentials, they want portfolio...

[u/Tnecniw → u/Greedy_Ad2198]

I will argue that it depends slightly on the medium.
Not in the sense that the actual degree is worth much.
But more in teh sense that some of those educations are genuinely useful to become good in the field.

Sorta like "You COULD learn by yourself, but this field in perticular with the hardware or tools, usually require guidance" that sorta thing.

Game dev is just not one of them as everything you could possibly know about the field is found online. (Heck most of the studying you do yourself is found online anyway)

[u/Greedy_Ad2198 → u/Tnecniw]

I did graphic design training and tbh they just still make you teach yourself. The only thing you really learn from them directly is how to sell your work and react to criticism and work with customers. You also get a surface level crash course on color theory and composition. Then you get a bunch of projects that you don't get any help with and in between they tell you how much it sucks so you can go figure out yourself how to fix it lol.

[u/Tnecniw → u/Greedy_Ad2198]

I know. Game dev was mostly the same, even if we got some neat design guidelines, and how to handle prototyping.
The actual development?
Nah, that was 99% self taught.

[u/Immersi0nn → u/USBombs83]

Marine Motorcycle repair? Is that like...a jetski or something? Wtf is a marine motorcycle lol

[u/USBombs83 → u/Immersi0nn]

Missing a comma. Marine, motorcycle and power equipment. Boat engines, small vehicles and anything else with a tiny engine basically.

[u/Immersi0nn → u/USBombs83]

Pretty cool! So jetskis would definitely apply.

I'm gonna call them Marine Motorcycles forever now lol

[u/USBombs83 → u/Immersi0nn]

Yes they do!

Now im feeling deep disappointment that none of us came up with this joke in school…