No grad school here either, a simple bachelor's degree in Business
...from a Sate school at that!
No computer/IT background either, I did have a lite bright as a kid if that counts?
I have a drivers license and a marriage license, I have a dog license for my Eskie. I guess I'm below so many others???

Yeah, it does sound a bit hoity toity doesn't it?
Hell, the developer of Diplomacy was a mail carrier!

I am in my 1st semester doing a computational biology PhD...

Why do you want to know?

Agreed...random question. But for what it's worth, former graduate student

I was sick last week and had multiple advanced degrees! Damned fever lasted for a day or two!

I have a normal high-school diploma and no computer-background from work.
I'm a orthopaedic shoemaker and Prosthetist.

Bachelor's Degree of Contemporary Art with Honours.

Currently completing Post-Graduate studies in Teaching and Learning (High School specialisation) to make the Bachelor's degree something employable.

So much for my theory. It just seemed like a great many people that I have chatted with on here had ended up being either grad students or worked in corporate IT. The third option was just to allow for the unlikely possibility of eventual graduation.

at almost 53 years old, I don't think I will ever "eventually" get a Masters. In fact, I can guarantee it aint gonna happen! (I just don't care to spend the time OR the money)

why is that the third option? Why can't we be happy the way we are? You may have some doctors here...good for them doing what they like. But what's wrong with even a high school drop out who works on a garbage truck? He's doing an honest days work and maybe he even enjoys it! If one is doing what he likes or if one simply can't cut it going to college, why should they feel like a second class person as it really does sound like you are trying to say.

You wanted to know if we were graduate students or IT professionals....no other choices? Then you suggest you should have added a third option where we would eventually get a degree? Nobody from my wife's family graduated from college (not counting me and a sister in-law who married in) my kids were the first (and a few other grandkids now) all nice and hard working people whom you seem should not be here. The inventor of Diplomacy was a mail carrier, I doubt he had a college degree (certainly doubtful he had any advanced degree?) why are you playing such a low brow game? Something created by such a common person???

Tomahaha, my impression wasn't that Gopher was saying anything about anyone being better or worse than anyone else, rather that he was wondering whether his theory about the demographic of the site was correct.

Although he does mention the possibility of eventually completing another course, it doesn't necessarily mean that he thinks that people should try to do one, or that those that don't are any lesser for it.

Grad students are generally a bunch of neurotic psychos, myself included. My question was about social psychology, not educational attainment. Obviously, we attract to ourselves those who are like us. My social interactions on this site have been disproportionately with other grad students and a fair number of corporate IT people. I was asking people in these two categories to identify themselves to see if there are a large number of them on this site.

The categories have been inferred to be exclusive and an attempt at a complete cover when that was never implied.

Also I live in America where there is no system of social class. All that matters in terms of hierarchy building is how much money you have. Credentials are next to meaningless. By the standards of American society, grad students are among the lowest status beings imaginable. We are generally not engaged in economically productive activity. We are not even monks; we are novice monks in a basically secular society. I will never make as much money after I graduate as I did before I started and I knew this before beginning. I will also have lower status than I did in my previous profession. I did not think that I was even open to being interpreted in the manner that Tomahaha seems to have. The third option of eventually getting a degree was in the original post: was one a graduate student when joining vDip but have now finished.

I have a mickey mouse degree from what used to be called a "Polytechnic" until some time in the eighties (after I'd got my degree) when Mrs Thatcher decided to call them all 'Universities' as well.

I'm educating myself in the IT branch. (pardon my bad English)