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butterflywhisperer is offline butterflywhisperer Post #1  January 22,2009, 8:38pm
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So far I haven't filled out that section because it appears that not many others are filling out theirs and I also don't want to appear that I am bragging or somehow intimidating to men. Don't get me wrong, I am proud of my achievements and finally after 20 years listed all of my diplomas and honors (well, most) on the wall when I went to a friend's house and she had so proudly displayed her Medical Transcription certificate. She was so proud of it and I was so proud for her and couldn't even find most of my education stuff. It was gathering dust somewhere so I finally dusted them off and framed them.


My point being, is it a plus or a minus for a woman to put down her educational achievements? Not bragging, truly and honestly wondering the wisdom of this.
 
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It is beneficial to put your educational level down. It can work as a filter.
 
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Personally I don't spell all of this out as the schools would also list basic locations. I prefer not to spell out the town I live for everyone on the web as a safety precaution. If it was just the degrees and not the actual schools...sure.
 
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i prefer to date an educated woman- so it would be a plus for me. as for the location of the schools... i do not live where i attended college and assume few live near where they went to school
 
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i don't have it on this board or eH proper...just too easy to track. way i figger, someone wanna no how much book learnin i got can read my posts.
 
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If you're talking about your profile here on the boards - this is just your "about you" bit here, it won't translate onto your eH profile (if you're a member there). If you feel like sharing it, go for it, people find it interesting reading about what other folk of both sex have been up to over the years.


I don't list my education/job locationhere for a few reasons - it's not really that important from my point of view to do so here (anyone who wants my CV can ask me for it, I'm happy to share with my friends mostly as this itself is not a dating venue, so I'm not here to find a boyfriend (but if you're out there reading this young boy, helloooooo handsome, do drop me a line!).Lastly,even a brief biosketch of my background & place of work would possibly make me google-able, & I could do without an excessive amount of crazymail that way! (I get enough crazieshere!).
 
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butterflywhisperer, wrote :

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There's a line in Bob Dylan's *Subterranean Homesick Blues* ... o/~ 20 years of schoolin' & they put you on the Day Shift ... o/~


I am anti the anti-education, anti-intellectual crowd - hmm, what were those Alaskan voters THINKING (or maybe they weren't?) in their last gubanatorial election. Oh wait! There was our Great Ventura Mistakeseveral years ago, after which we seriously thought about re-instituting the election day alcohol sales ban ;-)


Anyway, I hate to brag, and find it off-putting,so, in the "education" field, I just typed in "a lot"
 
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butterflywhisperer, it is so standard in my field to have your education listed on so many things, I don't think twice about it. I filled it all in. Now that I realize just how openly accessible this site is to the public, I have removed things that are easily identifying of me when I looked at my profile page one day and saw too many things on it that someone I know professionally could accidentally end up there with the right combination of words in Google.


Personally, I think that your educational experiences have contributed to who you are, sometimes as much or even more so than some of the relationships that we've had. It is another piece of the puzzle and you should be proud to put it there, not ashamed because you are a woman! This is not a dating site, it is a community (or so I hear), and you should feel comfortable sharing anything about yourself on your profile here that you are willing to put in the public domain.
 
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thanks for your respective replies. I borrowed your 'a lot' descriptive because itjust seems to fit. I experimented and thought I'd leave off the city/state and just put some of the honors in place of that and used initials to represent the college/university but looking at it from a different viewpoint, I realized that was pretty easily identifiable, especially given that at least two of the degrees, especially the I/O, are so specialized that I think there were just two of us graduating with that degree from arather large university. In short, less is more. thanks again!
 
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