<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=163921.msg7698245#msg7698245">Quote from: ReijiTabibito on 10-02-2013, 00:10:49</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Except <em>except</em> it's Academics: Xenoarch, which the book says under Academics that the field can be used to reflect a working <em>theoretical</em> knowledge of that skill - the book gives Interrogation and Armorer as examples - which has nothing to do with practical application.<br/><br/>It's why I got shafted out of college in jobs when I was up against guys who didn't have my shiny degree - they had <em>practical job experience</em>, which companies want more than someone who has book learning.<br/><br/>Also probably because they could get away with paying less, the bastards.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"Except<em>except</em>" in your example, the guy is making a theoretical assessment of the utility of a xeno-relic. Which fits for a knowledge-based skill. He's discussing its utilization, not trying to make a living by building it or using it in the best possible professional manner.<br/><br/>And it's largely the latter (paying less) in this day and age. I got knifed out of a job because I was making TOO MUCH without a degree, then they replaced me with someone with no degree...Who had less experience and they could pay half what they were paying me (I had a decade in that position with accrued benefits and pay raises).<br/><br/>Optimally, you need both the degree AND the field experience, which is a tough row to hoe.