Me too. I'm a souschef. Now that's a line of work you only learn by practice. Sure, some theory is required but my high school let me cook and serve for paying guests when I was fifteen years old. Being able to make mistakes and get a feel in a kitchen at that age really benefits you. Just be a sponge with every chef you get, work hard and your graduation papers mean nothing anymore. Just the experience, knowledge and well some talent and lots of creativity of course. About education and intelligence, you can do very well in this world with any kind of intelligence. Like streetsmart for example, a friend of mine has not the highest IQ or EQ, no education, is dislectic and all but still doing really well with his own companies. Yes plural. Because he knows people, he knows how the world works and anticipates very well to that. He isn't scared of anything and that's not a kind of smart you can learn really.
Shhhh, i'm not a real forger either. Didn't get as far in school as i had hoped due to economic reasons (a very long story which includes rugs, and assholes pulling them out from under me), but i once told Mensa Canada to 'shove it up their inflexible asses' when they sent me an apology/acceptance letter.
2nd year Business/Arts dual degree. Majors in Advertising/Writing respectively. STILL NO CLUE WHAT I WANT TO DO WITH MY LIFE REGRETS
Nope, but the whole ludicrous situation could have been a chapter in a Coen brothers movie. Most of my education was, let's say, state funded due to me being (mostly) on my own since i was 17. The funding was extended by 3 weeks due to a teacher's strike half way through the final semester. During that 3 weeks all i had to do to was hand in a paper and re-take a binary matrix math test. I had just barely passed the first math test and wanted to retake the test after, you know, actually learning Boolean Matrix Theory. By the time test day came i was practically thinking in binary and was 100% ready to ace the test. The paper i had to write was the ludicrous part. The prof had inve$ted heavily into his college buddy's attempt at creating an accounting package aimed at small and home businesses. The program was a direct mainframe-to-PC port of an accounting package written in ****ING COBOL (read: ancient hieroglyphics). The papers, where we required to write a favorable ass-licking extremely detailed assessment of the program (which would later be quoted as fraudulent glowing customer reviews) were gleefully handed in by all but me. My 'paper' read something like this. "No one in their right ****ing mind is ever going to purchase, and run their business, off a software package which requires; 25 ****ing binders of instruction to run, the customer having to learn to program COBOL at the College level in order to set the parameters to match their specific business needs, dig through pages of code to inject even the simplest of bookkeeping transactions, and ****ing re-compile the actual program from scratch at regular intervals. Have you even looked at your competition? They include a small printed 'Quick Start Guide' , and a single disk with the detailed manual. They will never, ever know what program was used to write that software because they are not able to 'look under the hood". The paper, as required to completely fulfill the assignment, went into detail to further prove my point but i doubt the prof made it past the first paragraph. A few days later, as i was on my way to take the math test, i checked the mail and found my 3 week extension had been rescinded due to 'attendance issues' in the previous 2 weeks signed by the prof noted above. He found a loophole where he could expel me as retaliation for my paper. My state funding required me to attend every day, which i did, but there was no one there to note my attendance.