Should I Join the Club?

Should I join society?

  • Yes. There are gobs of benefits to you.

    Votes: 14 45.2%
  • No. It isn't worth it.

    Votes: 12 38.7%
  • God you're a geek!

    Votes: 5 16.1%

  • Total voters
    31
  • Poll closed .

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curiouscat9 said:
Thanks for everyone's opinions. So, I'll just pony up the $75 bucks and hopefully get it back in spades.
Wait, what the fuck? You said nothing about them wanting money in the OP. If I had known they were charging you $75 I would have voted differently. Seriously, how the hell did you leave this out of the OP? Tell those dickwads to go fuck themselves.
 

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Sorry for the omission folks. I just thought the money part was a known factor.

What I get from it all? I am still trying to figure this one out. Yes, it will look good on a resume. But will it get me the job? I personally think that for every one person that will be impressed, there will be at least two who could care less and have hostile tendencies towards me because of it.

Immediate rewards seem to be few. I get a nifty certificate that I can frame and hang on the wall or hide in the filing cabinet.

It does offer potential scholarship money, though unless I decide to get my Masters or JD I’m not sure how helpful this feature is to me, as I am a senior right now. Also, as an adult learner, most scholarships are not applicable. Mostly, because you have to show you have been active doing community service. How does one explain, that between work, raising a somewhat upstanding young citizen, school, and taking care of every family crisis that hits the fan, I don't have the time or energy to devote several hours a week to "the community." And if I did, I'd probably have a cleaner house than I do.

I guess my personal thought process is that at some future point, like when I’m in front of the comfirmation committee for the Supreme Court, it might come in handy. You know how academics and congressman love the alphabet soup and membership factor after someone’s name? Of course I will also have to whip out the fact that I was a Boy Scout Explorer for theater and sound engineering. (AND YES, I am a girl – they let me in at a time of extreme enlightenment.)

I will, by the way, have to deny my association with you lot though. Perhaps something similar to the marijuana defense? “I didn’t inhale!” Maybe something along the lines of “I posted, but I didn’t look.” Just call me Judas.

I’ll let you know if I can come up with any other advantages.
 

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A couple of points.

First, what does your resume look like now? If it's loaded with academic accomplishments, such as Magna/Summa/whatever you end up with, anything additional may be superfluous. There's a point of diminishing returns when adding academic accomplishments to your resume - better in some cases to add some non academic stuff, like volunteering or work experience.

Second, you never know what something like the "National Honour Society" will look like down the road. I earned an honour that was pretty exclusive in high school, but by the time I finished university, the standards had been lowered and it was pretty much useless as resume padding. Caveat emptor with respect to stuff like this.
 

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I would pay the $75 and do it. $75 probably isn't going to break you, and having this membership can't hurt. It might help, but it won't hurt. Will there be times when you leave certain things off your resume to keep from appearing over-qualified? Sure. But why not have it hanging out in the back in case of emergency?
 

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curiouscat9 said:
I will, by the way, have to deny my association with you lot though. Perhaps something similar to the marijuana defense? “I didn’t inhale!” Maybe something along the lines of “I posted, but I didn’t look.” Just call me Judas.

But by then, we'll have a female president, and as we all know, women prefer big penises, so that would actually help you land the job. See? One more thing to put on your resume along with being a National Honor Society member...
 

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Dr Rock said:
I quit school at 15 too. I actually can't imagine what a sad life one would have to lead in order to have time for school at the age of 16 and onwards, but hey

Ah, but you had already learned to READ and were putting that to good use on your own, not the case of all drop-outs, unfortunately.
 

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Dr Rock said:
I quit school at 15 too. I actually can't imagine what a sad life one would have to lead in order to have time for school at the age of 16 and onwards, but hey
Thank God I bypassed school and went straight to the corner.

Actually, I did finish high school and completed college (Development Economics). But that was then. I gotta say I'm doing pretty damn good for a person who refuses to get a nine-to-five.
 

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I thought I would give you all an update on this topic. I did join the club and will let you all know when and if I reap any benefits from it.

Thank you for your opinions and advice.

For the record, I went back to school because I kept getting passed over for promotions because I didn't have a degree. Also, when applying for jobs that pay well, it is easier for employers to eliminate you for consideration when you don’t have a degree. It is easier for them to use the degree as a tool of measurement, rather than actually match the right person for the job.

I have always been self-taught (for those of you looking for a new word for the day - autodidactic) and though not a genius, I am very smart -- mostly because I am well read. Frankly, except for the higher level business classes I am taking, I rarely study or read the textbook and get A’s. And even in those, I already know three-quarters of the material covered. I was in my 30’s when I was forced errr, went back to school. Up until then, my parochial school education (grades 1-6) served me very well. In fact, in one of my jobs, I sat down with two Ph.D.'s weekly to point out what grammer errors they made and needed to correct before I could accept and include their writings for the publication I worked for at the time. One of them was a particular grammar moron that had me severely questioning higher education standards.


I think that when I am “the man” I will have my HR person set aside anyone’s resume WITH a degree and only consider those WITHOUT. At least initially.

So there you have it.
 

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I recently joined a club.

The Penmen's Club(a writers club) I like to think of it as "The Penmen's Guild"...

Anyway! You can join a group and still retain your geekiness, though I think nerds are way better. It's actually pretty enjoyable... For the most part my friend Danual and myself sit in the back of the room and talk about random things... Presidents being figure-heads, who came closer to world domination: Alexander the Great or Hitler, and other such things :p

Though at every meeting(every friday) we get to read; we read poems, short stories and stuff... It's actually quite enjoyable... the last club was french club and it sucked! It was full of football players and other jocks!

It's kinda weird, they arent in the club becuase its fun or they lke french(infact most of the club members are recieving Fs in the class) they do t becuase the teacher, Mr. Langerot, is a novelty to them, they think hes funny and stuff... So I couldnt stay n their long... Instead of talking about french they were talking about soccer and football and other shit...

Anyway! The underground of society is okay... Just don't venture out into the light, just use the dimly lit corridors and underground veins.
 

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Although this appears to be a very, very, old post that is revived, perhaps someone else is in this situation and can use my advice:

I'm actually in that national honor society at my university and also in one for the top 7% and have been invited into countless other such societies. But, I've never so much as attended a single meeting for any of them - thus I see them as useless. I could never talk about them at an interview (of any kind) and I haven't contributed to them, so I don't see why they are worth anything. So, I would say only join one if you are going to get highly involved in the organization.

On the other hand, I joined a club at my school that consults for non-profits and have gotten very involved in it over the years. I have gained real work, team, and management experience from the club and could talk way, way too much about it if someone asked, besides all that I have learned. This type of organization is the kind I think everyone should take the opportunity to be in, because when you get really involved, you end up contributing to it and in return learn much for yourself. Not to mention the networking and opportunities that are there to seize if you so choose.

So that's my rant on.. clubs of any kind really..
1) If your name goes on a list and nothing else ever happens - waste
2) If you can give of yourself and improve yourself - do it