What's the highest qualification you've got?

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Aircraft CAA Engineering Licence A and C (now expired)
FAA A + P Licence(now expired)
HND Aeronautical Studies
Personal Licence

 

[hart's shirt]

Magic The Gathering - qualified for Top 8 in the Fate Reforged game day in Dubai a few weeks back
Elite (1984) - Combat rating of 'Dangerous' and successfully docked at a space station without using docking computers
18th Hove Cub Scouts - Black Sixer (circa 1978-1979)...a good year

 

[Chicken Run]

O level design ceramics Grade C

 

[Mattywerewolf]

Various national titles for chess as a junior - when I was around age 15 I gave it up as a competitive game in favour of girls
.

I didn't realise that was an option

 

[Thunder Bolt]

O levels
Grade 8 Trinity college exams for drama, speech and singing. I once won a cup in the Coop Music Festival for folk singing.
Passed my driving test first time
Distinction in RSA typing exam

 

[Nibble]

How do you get into the stunt industry? Do you need to be an actor first? Are there stunt schools you can apply for?

Well I got interested in it while acting, mainly through meeting and chatting to stunt guys on a couple of sets. While knowing people in stunts does help there's no getting around the training. I'm only at the beginning of a stunt career, bottom of the rung but I train all the time and get a few jobs here and there on film while training, jobs on a low level. You need to specialise in a couple of disciplines, say sword and archery maybe but to get on the stunt register and start getting regular work you need 6 disciplines to a high standard.
It helps to maintain a good level of fitness, for example I do boxing training. This gives you the skill of boxing, one of your disciplines while keeping fit. Other people I know do gymnastics, another stunt skill and keeping fit. But make sure the skills you gain are eligible for the stunt register.
There's a couple of good schools in England, the BAA run a few in Guildford that are geared toward stunts for camera. Train and talk and meet people. Constantly!

But no, you don't need to act first but it does help being on film sets.

 

[AnotherArch]

Highest: Safe Working at Height certificate
Actual highest: 10 yards swimming certifcate hanging 7 feet off the ground on the toilet wall.
Most notable: Handwriting competition winner in tha Argus about 1961.

 

[Nibble]

Aircraft CAA Engineering Licence A and C (now expired)
FAA A + P Licence(now expired)
HND Aeronautical Studies
Personal Licence

Is that a pilots license? Do you still fly?

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Is that a pilots license? Do you still fly?

No engineers licence

 

[Nibble]

No engineers licence

Ah, do you still work on craft? I've always been interested in planes and engineering of them but only so much you can do in your time.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Ah, do you still work on craft? I've always been interested in planes and engineering of them but only so much you can do in your time.

No I left 15 years ago having gone into management becoming disillusioned with the idiots above( sad to say mainly graduates with very little experience)

 

[carteater]

A B in GCSE science .

Stage 1 on the Clarinet. .

 

[Rowdey]

and a fork-lift license...

I was wondering what the fklnp bit was on my license, and now i know..

Passed my gas exams last year. After many years of only being 'wet side' qualified, i took time to go to college and passed on 23rd Dec.

Quite bizarre having to do revision next to my two boys in the evenings.

 

[Nibble]

No I left 15 years ago having gone into management becoming disillusioned with the idiots above( sad to say mainly graduates with very little experience)

Fair enough, at least you're in charge now!

 

[BBassic]

Expired Microsoft Server 2003 MCSE, back when they were more difficult than now due to simulation questions rather than multiple-choice. Soon expiring Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 MCTS ones from the multiple choice era.

University of Life proved to be most useful in getting every job I've had so far but my degree (IT management) at least ticks some boxes on recruiter sorting systems.

It's still mostly multiple choice. I sat 70-461 a month ago (failed) and it was largely multiple choice. A few 'organise these code snippets' thrown in for good measure.

 

[Cian]

It's still mostly multiple choice. I sat 70-461 a month ago (failed) and it was largely multiple choice. A few 'organise these code snippets' thrown in for good measure.

I know - I meant as opposed to the heavily simulator based era in the early-mid 2000s. Think it was entirely multiple choice in the NT4/2000 era but that's too long ago for me to have done them.

 

[mothy]

CCAB Chartered Accountant & Prince2 Project Management

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

RICS – another one of those qualifications where nobody knows what the hell it means – unless you are in it. Still it did help me get a job in New York so guess it had its uses.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Cocoa Cola Football Skills Black
Some gymnastics basic badges
Loads of cub and scout bedges
Swimming Gold Life Saving
8 O Levels and 2 A Levels
HND in Computer Science with Software Engineering
A number of expired Microsoft exams
Cisco CCNA
Juniper Advanced Firewall
APM Certified
Business Analysis Essentials

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Bsc First Class Honours Degree in Anatomy & Physiology,
BTEC Diploma Science & Health studies,
12 0'Levels,
Dip Ed Level III HE Forensic Science,
I'm a qualified Operating Department Practitioner.
Starting in October on a Criminology & Psychology Degree with O.U


Level 2 FA Coaching award
FA Prelim Badge
Multiple football medals
Brown Belt in Budokhan