Mhux biex inkun fiswa… but:

“I never said you were jealous of Mrs Mizzi’s degree.”

I quote again:

“You appear jealous of this lady’s achievements and her MBA by the way you write.”

Confused, Susan?

I always had a similar opinion on degrees and academic qualifications.

I think that being academically qualified is an important factor to build a career, however, there are many other factors that are of equal importance such as experience, being practical, and above all an eager to learn.

From experience at different places of work, you find many people who think that since they are qualified they can be very successful and I’m glad that you mentioned this subject as it is really annoying for people making such a fuss about their qualifications.

In the financial services industry, for example, there are industry specific qualifications ranging from certificates obtained with a couple of multiple choice exams that once you pass, you can put titles such as Cert CII, Dip CII etc.

I did obtain one of these certificates, but I never wanted to use it on my business card as I believe that any subject that you study is for increasing your knowledge and not to show off the titles. And to be frank, having a certificate title after my name in my view looks as if you want to say “look I obtained a certificate”. But some told me that I’m sort of “stramb”.

I have always noted the misuse of certain appellations, with lots of people calling themselves economists, for example. Strictly speaking, not even people majoring in economics can call themselves economists – and here in Malta whoever obtains a bachelors degree in commerce is an economist.

I’m reading for a degree in economics with the London School of Economics, but I will not call myself an economist even if I obtain a first class degree from what is one of the best universities in the world.

Even if you graduate in economics, you are not an economist. Economist do ongoing work in research, modelling, econometrics and so on.

That’s how I feel about all these people upset with your blog. They don’t have the brains to get most of the humour but they kind of know they should be upset by it.

They then rant on and on with not much thought to what they are saying. This just opens them up to more criticism. Keep up the good work, Daphne.

Well, he’s not Socrates now, is he?

I agree Daphne, that condescending tone with big words like “hubris” and “cogent”.

Dear Susan, or whatever your name is, please don’t ‘give up’. Your intellect, verbosity and excellent English certainly add to our Daphne’s blog. I await your next salvo with anticipation. Where have you been all my life? Please don’t say, ‘avoiding it’.

What people tend to do for the sake of politics.

I hold a Ph.D. so you can all suck my balls. Especially ‘susan galea’. And it’s not hubris that I’ve got, but a great fucking realisation that my life is a total failure. Call it “disillusionment” if you like. Which is why you happy shiny lot piss me off so much.

[Daphne – I’m not running an X-rated blog here, so tone it down. Drink hemlock, what can I say.]