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johnslat · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:20 pm Post subject:

Dear 007,

I'm afraid this is a little confusing:

"I think the majority of employers will not recognize the online degree if it was obtained from non accredited and reputable university."

"Non-accredited" and "reputable" have just about opposite meaning, so I'm guessing from the context that you might have meant to write "disreputable."
Regards,
John

jgmodlin · Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 120 Location: USA

I am also still curious how it is that an employer is able to discern the difference between a degree that says "Master's of Linguistic Arts, University of Maryland" and one that says "Master's of Linguistic Arts, Maryland"? One having been gained online and the other through classes taken on campus.

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

I was also in Japan, 1988-92, before migrating to the Gulf Middle East once the money ran out in Japan. Right now the university salaries in Japan are lower than they were in '92.

If you want to survive the Middle East, get used to lots of ambiguity. Having said that, here is a thing I posted the other day about my Asian wife living in Saudi

Absolutely agree. My wife, a Malaysian Chinese, couldn't stand it anymore in Saudi after two and a half years--bearing in mind that we had several long vacations in the interim. She is somebody who likes to participate in life, not watch it go by from some compound or, worse yet, a street-level apartment. Although she had never been to the U.S. at that time, she left Saudi a year earlier than I did in order to set up house in the States and find a job and take care of the kid! And she was only 25 then. I have to give her tons of credit for that kind of courage, and for joining me from the relative luxury of Kuala Lumpur in the first place. I feel very guilty nowadays for having put her through that Saudi experience. If you love your wife, I would say, don't do this to her...unless as the previous poster wisely noted, she needs to polish off a dissertation or something. Of course, if she has a professional job there such as teaching college, it's a different matter. My wife is a businesswoman, so, naturally, a Chinese businesswoman is considered useless in the Magic Kingdom. That alone tells you what kind of country it is.

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Cleopatra · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:27 am Post subject:

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

We all have skills. They come with being human. Whether ior not we can sell these skills depends on where we are.

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

Cleo is correct, which is why my wife did not bother applying for a work visa in Saudi. I used the term "businesswoman" in the broad and possibly misleading sense that she is (and was) in middle management in the private sector. Why would Jones make the sweeping assumption that she had no skills other than networking? She manages oil tanker logistics and operations from shore. Well, that's now. In our Saudi days she was only 23-25 and had been in international freight forwarding.

I included the tag "Chinese" not to mean much other than Chinese outside mainland China have always been fairly well known as hard-working, high achievers in the private sector, whether as engineers, doctors, entrepreneurs or whatever.

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

So she wasn't a businesswoman but a business executive or a manager.

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

Correct. I used the wrong term, essentially.

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007 · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:32 pm Post subject:

Cleopatra · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:01 pm Post subject:

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

He means that he is stoned and rat-arsed and does not know what he is writing.