No, but my degrees are only BSEE and MBA. I’ve seen people put MBA after their name and I don’t like it. If I had a PhD I’d probably put it on there.
I had wondered about your name.
My business card has contact information and job title ( Sr. Earth Scientist ). I got a box of 500 cards and have given perhaps 30 of them away.
I hate that as well. In fact, I hate whenever someone puts an alphabet soup of degrees and certifications after their name. M.D., P.E. or esq. is fine because that’s standard practice, if not a requirement, for those professions. Maybe CPA or CFA if your job requires it. But once you start getting into stuff like PMP or various vender certifications, that’s a bit much. Your resume should tell me you are an effective project manager, not some letters that indicate your ability to pass a 200 multiple choice question test.
Also a Star Trek reference! Multiple geeky interests rolled up in one!
Just my MD. I skip the other alphabet soup I’ve accumulated before and since that one. (BA, FAAFP, DABFM, and a few even more screwball ones)
I don’t even have business cards. Thirty years on and managed to never get them.
From the other side, in my field, if I got a card that said MS, PhD whatever after the person’s name, I’d figure they were trying too hard. Like they have low self esteem and are buoying it with the letter salad.
This isn’t a blanket putdown or anything of others who have their degrees; it only is my opinion of my workplace. I don’t work with dentists or lawyers, just a smattering of Phds.
Well if I had a degree in faapping, I don’t know if I would advertise it.
I have a B.S., an M.S. and a couple of engineering licenses (P.E.). I only put P.E. on my business card. I’m currently a technical writer so I think it’s important to highlight my technical/engineering qualifications, especially since I’m female.
I had cards made up once, and I ended up tossing most of them. But all they had was my name, organization, phone number, and job title.
If I was a consultant with a string of fancy credentials, I’d list them, but I spent my career as an engineer, never in a leadership position, and I can’t think of any time having a card would have made a difference. When people would give me theirs, I’d usually lose them within a couple of days anyway.
Not very professional, huh?
I have Ph.D on my card. My proud parents would probably kill me if I didn’t.
That certification gives me a 15% salary bump.
Happy Lendervedder, BA in Eng with a minor in Psych
I’m very proud of my six years at the University of Michigan.
Not putting your alphabet on your card – good.
Putting your alphabet on your card – good.
Putting someone else’s alphabet on your card – not so good.
A faap and a hump? I must be in the wrong profession.
That certification gives me a 15% salary bump.
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I don’t want to know, I don’t want to know, I don’t want to know… :eek:
Is it even legal to put that on one’s business card?
Same here; as a lawyer, I have to have degrees; but at this point they aren’t important to any clients I may have.
I mean. they know I graduated from law school, or either (1) I’m much older than I look, or (2) there is something really wrong.
[I think at one point you could pass the bar without graduating from a law school, but that was a long, long tome ago …]
I don’t know about Sask, but in Ont a law school professor can get called to the bar without having a law degree, and there is no requirement for law school professors to have a law degree (although I can’t think of any full time profs who did not get a degree in law), so in theory it is still possible for a person to become a lawyer in Ontario without having a law degree.
I actually had a law professor who had no degree - but he was ancient (he taught trusts). That was decades ago, I don’t think he could still be alive, or if he is, he’d be very elderly.
These days, I suspect the possibility is more theoretical than real … law professors are usually recruited from either those who have practiced law, or who have an impressive academic career.