differences between friends

[karma22]

What do you do if you have a friend but you think stuff that she believes in is stupid etc. How do you deal with it when they are talking to you about it? Do you just agree with them, are you very blunt and just say you think its a load of crap or do you pretend you are interested?

For example: - someone I know is a bit of a swot, likes doing courses and studying but she isn't actually on much better money than I have been (in my previous long term job anyway) and she is 10 years older than me. I tend to think that qualifications do help sometimes but she is very much the sort of person who is very good with courses and educational study but lacks a bit of common sense.

When she is talking to me about her courses or whatever, how am I supposed to deal with it?

[Androcles]

Why don't you just accept your friend as she is? Love her good bits and ignore the bits you don't like. Telling her that how she spends her time is "bulls doo doos" doesn't sound very friendly to me. If she tells you about her courses, take an interest because she is your friend, your opinion, unless asked for, is not relevant in terms of maintaining the relationship, however stupid you think the things are. They are important to her and if you value the friendship then they matter to you too.

[Thunderchild]

some people do like to study and accumulate qualifications, in italy they are that obsessed with bit of paper you can buy a degree, I'm not the studying type but do have lots of common sense and learn along the way without formal education, I was given a job on this very basis, the guy before me moved into design, they are actually wasting money paying for him to take a degree, I say wasting money because he dosen't seem to value practical knowledge and the application of what you know.

some people think that its all about how much you supposedly know no matter how little you may know how to apply it, in part you can thank this stupid goverment that seem to bang on about the more you earn the more you learn, all they want is everyone running around with a degree that in 90% of cases is pointless and being able to say to the torries: see we educated the country and lifed people from the slums.... its just a statistics excersise, if she wants to be a statistic: let her